Possible new tax law?

[Gusturd]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I've thought the same thing about buying a used car, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work that way.

A used car doesn't get sold nearly as often as a baseball card. How many 1909 used cars are still changing hands?

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by Gusturd

A used car doesn't get sold nearly as often as a baseball card. How many 1909 used cars are still changing hands?

So are you saying a used car dealership should pay taxes because those cars are only sold once or twice? But a card reseller shouldn't because cards are resold often??

Just trying to make sense of your post.

[Gusturd]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

So are you saying a used car dealership should pay taxes because those cars are only sold once or twice? But a card reseller shouldn't because cards are resold often??

Just trying to make sense of your post.

Pretty much yes. A car is a regulated and licensed product that is "used" by each purchaser and exacts a toll on the community...requiring infrastructure, pollution, drunk drivers...or worse yet texting teenage drivers. It makes sense to me it would be taxed differently than a 2.5" x 3.5" piece of cardboard that just sits there and changes hands 50 times or more in it's lifetime.

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by Gusturd

Pretty much yes. A car is a regulated and licensed product that is "used" by each purchaser and exacts a toll on the community...requiring infrastructure, pollution, drunk drivers...or worse yet texting teenage drivers. It makes sense to me it would be taxed differently than a 2.5" x 3.5" piece of cardboard that just sits there and changes hands 50 times or more in it's lifetime.

So the person working full or part time selling a regulated, licensed product should pay taxes, but not a person working full or part time selling baseball cards?

[Gusturd]

I think you've gone off target. We're talking about sales tax. The person selling doesn't pay the sales tax, the person buying does.

[NiceDocter]

Anyone want to buy my used Radar Detector from 1975? X and K bands.... guaranteed to let you beat Smokey 75% of the time !

[MooseDog]

The way it works in California is that the person holding the valid reseller permit (the merchant in most cases) is "...responsible for collecting...sales tax..."

A merchant may by all means NOT charge a customer a sales tax but is still liable to remit the tax on that transaction to the taxing authority, so in a sense the merchant selling can sometimes end up paying the tax.

Originally Posted by Gusturd

I think you've gone off target. We're talking about sales tax. The person selling doesn't pay the sales tax, the person buying does.