Posted by sed on 01/04/06 03:16

Someone else said it but you are liable for the tax regardless of the
location of Netflix. Us New Yorkers if we drive to Connecticut or New
Jersey where the tax is lower we are suppose to remit the difference in tax
to our wonderful tax collectors. What Netflix is doing is saving you from
the burden of writing a check to the crooks in Scranton.

"RobMac" <rpmccartney@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1e209438b22d2bfb989dc5@news.individual.net...
> > Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:25:13 -0500 from RobMac <rpmccartney@gmail.com>:
> >> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> >> news:MPG.1e1f27b27161b609989dbc@news.individual.net...
> >> > [quoted text muted]
> >> > behalf of the state.
> >> >
> >> > (*) Some states do give credit for very-big-ticket items like cars
> >> > and boats.
> >>
> >> So if I understand right, if Netflix is within my sate I pay sales tax
> >> (which I've been doing) but now they want to collect use/rental tax
> >> instead,
> >> because they're located outside my state, but if that's true why were
> >> they
> >> charging sales tax in the first place if not in-state? And if they ARE
> >> in-state how can they charge use/rental tax if it's to collect taxes
from
> >> importing into the state from elsewhere?
> >>
> >> I'm still confused.
> >
> > Then go back and read again. It's either-or, not both.
> >
>
> That's why I'm confused....
> I know it can't be both, so - - -
>
> If Netflix is IN my state they cannot change to collecting use/rental
taxes
> (since there's no importing from outside the state) in which case they
> should still collect state tax, but the email I got says they won't any
> more, so they must be OUT of state and are changing because PA is forcing
> them to, but if that's true....they should not have been collecting state
> tax from me all along, and they have, suggesting they're in-state, but
they
> can't be if they now want to collect use/rental tax....and the argument
goes
> on, and on, and on....
>
> If they're not in-state, and have been collecting state tax from ME
> illegally, do I get it back?
>
> * I * know it can't be both, so that's why I'm confused, but Netflix can't
> charge one kind of tax and change to collect the other since it can only
be
> an either-or choice for them, not a cake-and-eat-it-too choice......so
which
> is it?
>
>
>
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