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  • ugimports
    Vendor/Retailer
    • Jun 2009
    • 6250

    Taxes, Refund, and Restocking

    Question: how do you guys do your receipt/books for a refund with restocking on a local sale.

    Example:
    I sell gun to Joe Bob for $100 + tax and fees ($100 + $9 tax + $25 background)
    I create an invoice for the above and the $25 goes to a liability account (not worried), $9 goes to my tax account
    Joe Bob Fails Background
    -- What I have been doing is refunding $75+tax (6.75) or 81.75

    That means i have an extra 2.25 in taxes that I will then in theory charge for again when I sell the same gun for $100

    What am I doing wrong with how I should be doing these refunds when tax is involved? Should I be backing out the whole invoice as a credit and then creating a new invoice @ 75% + tax + fee?

    how do you guys handle or do your whizbang POS systems do it for you?
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  • #2
    mej16489
    Veteran Member
    • Aug 2008
    • 2714

    I'm just a laymen; but it seems to me you should be refunding the entirety of the tax collected + 75% of the goods. So that would be an $84 refund ($75 + $9) the DROS would be forfitted (presuming that's in your seller's contract)

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    • #3
      NiceGuyInSanJose
      Member
      • May 2012
      • 150

      I'm not an FFL, but I am a Tax Accountant...

      Your new sale at 75% doesn't make sense because you kept 25%, not 75%...

      Whether you refund 75% or refund the whole thing and do a new sale for 25%, the result is the same.. you made a sale of $25, plus $2.25 in sales tax... and the tax has to go to the BOE...

      Yes, when you sell the gun again, you will also collect tax again, but that is a separate transaction and irrelevant to the first one.

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      • #4
        kemasa
        I need a LIFE!!
        • Jun 2005
        • 10706

        What was the item that was sold for $25? Is that item subject to sales tax? It is a sale or a fee? Remember the FFL fee is only subject to sales tax if the firearm being transferred is subject to sales tax.
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        • #5
          NiceGuyInSanJose
          Member
          • May 2012
          • 150

          I stand corrected... I just looked up the BOE website and found the following... the relevant information is on Page three under "Deductions for Returned Taxable Merchandise"

          The charge for restocking returned
          merchandise is a charge for service
          and is not subject to tax.

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