Online purchase sales tax

[Blownmotor]

If you buy a gun online and was charged sales tax, does the receiving FFL charge you sales tax again?

[Fluellen]

No, As long as you provide the invoice with the taxed amount to the ffl as proof.

[Blownmotor]

No, As long as you provide the invoice with the taxed amount to the ffl as proof.

Cool, thank you!

[DDM4556]

The retailer online should not charge sales tax. You should only be charged by the receiving FFL. Just make sure your FFL is on board to receive. Some charge a lot more than others to receive... $60 is about average.

[Wordupmybrotha]

No, As long as you provide the invoice with the taxed amount to the ffl as proof.

Yep.

The retailer online should not charge sales tax. You should only be charged by the receiving FFL. Just make sure your FFL is on board to receive. Some charge a lot more than others to receive... $60 is about average.

Some online retailers charge sales tax. I've been charged many times. If the online retailer did not charge, then the FFL will use the rate in their location.

[DDM4556]

^What were the circumstances? Just curious.

I’ve never been charged tax by the seller, but all of my online purchases have come from out of state. If it’s a CA seller, I can understand charging tax.

[SkyHawk]

^What were the circumstances? Just curious.

I’ve never been charged tax by the seller, but all of my online purchases have come from out of state. If it’s a CA seller, I can understand charging tax.

Many out of state gun sellers are collecting Ca tax, they are now required to by law if they ship more than $500k/yr of goods into CA. This applies to sellers of any type of goods, not just guns.

This is a result of the 2018 Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf

In Ca the collection requirement took effect April 1, 2019.

https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/L591.pdf

So the only sellers who might not be collecting tax, do not meet the annual dollar threshold for goods shipped to CA. All of my gun purchases from out of state the past year have been taxed at the point of sale, and same goes for most all other products I have bought.

[Blownmotor]

^What were the circumstances? Just curious.

I’ve never been charged tax by the seller, but all of my online purchases have come from out of state. If it’s a CA seller, I can understand charging tax.

Go try and checkout something from Grab A Gun. They charge sales tax and they're in Texas. That's why I asked which was odd to me in the beginning and didn't want to get double taxed being this is Ca and all

[559nFree]

If you buy a USED gun from an out of state FFL are you still required to pay CA taxes?

[Quiet]

If you buy a USED gun from an out of state FFL are you still required to pay CA taxes?

Yes.

[Maulerrr]

The secret is to ask the online dealer to lose your invoice, or see if your transferring FFL can misplace it

[sfe187]

So according to Hairball's example, has anyone was charged a lower sales tax rate by the out of state FFL vendor and the receiving FFL re-calculates and tax the difference? If yes, which CA FFL does this?

[Wordupmybrotha]

The secret is to ask the online dealer to lose your invoice, or see if your transferring FFL can misplace it

That's not going to fly. Then your receiving FFL will charge you sales tax.

[Wordupmybrotha]

So according to Hairball's example, has anyone was charged a lower sales tax rate by the out of state FFL vendor and the receiving FFL re-calculates and tax the difference? If yes, which CA FFL does this?

I've ordered about a dozen online and the receiving FFL never recalculated the sales tax.

[RP1911]

So according to Hairball's example, has anyone was charged a lower sales tax rate by the out of state FFL vendor and the receiving FFL re-calculates and tax the difference? If yes, which CA FFL does this?

It is the same with cars. When we sold a car to CA customer in Nevada (new or used), we were required to collect the NV sales tax by NV . When registering the car in CA, if the tax rate was higher than the NV tax rate, the customer would pay the difference.