Get NY DTF Publication 63 (formerly Publication 83) 2013

Although, as an out-of-state business, you may not be required to collect sales tax from your customers in New York State, your customers are still responsible for the payment of sales or use tax on their purchases.

You generally collect your state's sales tax on orders placed from within or delivered to your own state. In most states, you should not collect local sales tax on out-of-state orders.

Whether you must charge your customers out-of-state sales taxes comes down to whether you're operating in an origin-based state or a destination-based tax state. The process of determining which tax rates must be applied to individual purchases is called "sales tax sourcing," and yes, it can be daunting.

You are an international seller, with no physical presence or sales into the United States. Congratulations! If you do not have a physical presence in the U.S., nor make sales into the U.S., then you are not required to collect U.S. sales tax. Cheers!

Many retailers responded by announcing that they would pay their customers' sales tax, but it turns out they're not allowed to do that. ... Note that it's perfectly legal for businesses to pay their customers' sales tax; they just can't talk about it.

Since Pennsylvania is an origin-based state, you charge all customers located in PA the same sales tax rate (6 percent) no matter where they live. If you live and/or sell out of Philadelphia, you're required to charge that same 6 percent PLUS a local tax of 2 percent to all of your customers in PA.

When Do You Charge Your Own State's Sales Tax? You generally collect your state's sales tax on orders placed from within or delivered to your own state. In most states, you should not collect local sales tax on out-of-state orders.

Major items exempt from the tax include food (not ready-to-eat); candy and gum; most clothing; textbooks; computer services; pharmaceutical drugs; sales for resale; and residential heating fuels such as oil, electricity, gas, coal and firewood. The Pennsylvania sales tax rate is 6 percent.

The United States has no national sales tax. This means that each individual state decides how sales tax is governed. ... As an online seller, you will notice that some states will also tax shipping charges that you charge to your customers to ship products. Other states do not tax shipping.

When Do You Charge Your Own State's Sales Tax? You generally collect your state's sales tax on orders placed from within or delivered to your own state. In most states, you should not collect local sales tax on out-of-state orders.

In other words, if you run your business in an origin-based sales tax state, you don't have to worry about whether to charge sales tax based on your customer's billing address or her shipping address because you would charge sales tax based on your address. But only a handful of states are origin-based.

When you sell wholesale you do not charge sales tax on the order (the retailer will tax the customer for each item at time of purchase and that will be paid to the state as sales tax on that item.)

Clothing and footwear under $110 are exempt from New York City and NY State Sales Tax. Purchases above $110 are subject to a 4.5% NYC Sales Tax and a 4% NY State Sales Tax.

Sales by New York governmental entities of tangible personal property or services that are not ordinarily sold by private persons are exempt from sales tax.

Certain groups of people who meet specific criteria don't have to pay income taxes. For example, if you're single, under the age of 65, and your yearly income is less than $12,000, or married, under 65, with income less than $24,000, you're exempt from paying taxes. ... (These figures are for 2019 or the 2018 tax year.)