Can someone confirm/clarify this? Pennsylvania buyer

[swarmee]

Sounds like you have it right. Technically, you should have always been paying that "fair use" tax. States are starting to mandate it because nobody ever did.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Sounds like you have it right. Technically, you should have always been paying that "fair use" tax. States are starting to mandate it because nobody ever did.

If you are buying to re-sell, you are not obligated to pay any use taxes in your home state for items purchased out-of-state. Just like if you buy something to re-sell from within your home state, you can submit your tax ID/valid resale # to the seller to avoid paying the sales tax that the seller is obligated to charge on the in-state purchases.


Seems to me, most states (in response the Supreme Court's recent ruling) have created this "new" law because the existing use-tax law is too challenging to enforce.