Goldin Vault

[buymycards]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If you win something from Goldin and he ships to a state without sales tax, he doesn't have to collect the tax for the state at the time of sale. So, as I understand how this works, it then shifts responsibility to the buyer, and of course buyers just don't pay sales tax on internet transactions all the time, unless the seller collects it from them.

Thank you for clarifying that. I have the feeling that some states will catch on to that scenario and modify their rules. It seems like if I live in Wisconsin, if I purchase an item, I owe the tax and it doesn't matter where the item is shipped to.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Thank you for clarifying that. I have the feeling that some states will catch on to that scenario and modify their rules. It seems like if I live in Wisconsin, if I purchase an item, I owe the tax and it doesn't matter where the item is shipped to.

That would be my belief.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Thank you for clarifying that. I have the feeling that some states will catch on to that scenario and modify their rules. It seems like if I live in Wisconsin, if I purchase an item, I owe the tax and it doesn't matter where the item is shipped to.

Not necessarily. Especially if you are talking about someone who is into buying/investing as opposed to simply collecting. Businesses can have a main office that receives and pays everything out of one location, yet they can have offices and other locations all around the country. The sales tax paid on items purchased by the business is based on where an item is ultimately shipped to and used/kept, not where the main office is or the bills are paid from. If a person is using one of these companies, PWCC or Goldin, to also later on act as their consignor and eventually start selling some of these things for them, you could easily argue the items are collected and stored in the "vaults" for their protection (like a safe deposit box), and for later ease of handling and operation of their sale through PWCC or Goldin, and justify why you did not keep them in a state you lived in. As long as proper records are kept and there is evidence to show items are physically being kept in a state with no sales tax, I'm thinking you have a valid argument. (And also, if you truly are a dealer and the purchases represent inventory, you would technically be exempt from paying sales tax on your purchases as long as you had the proper license(s) and filed the proper resale exemption certificate(s) with the seller(s)).

Lots of people have assets and property in multiple states, and the state their main residence is in does not automatically take precedence over other states you may have assets or property in.

Now as far as having something sent to a state with no sales tax, and then suddenly bringing it back to that state where you now live that does have a sales tax later on, not so sure you would automatically owe sales tax to the state you live in. Say you live in Wisconsin, and also have a vacation home in Delaware. You go to local stores in Delaware and buy all your furnishings and stuff for the vacation property free of sales tax. You also go to a Delaware card or antique shop and find and buy a bunch of N172 Old Judge cards, with again no sales tax since purchased in Delaware, and have them framed and displayed in your vacation home as well. And then the following year, for whatever reason, you sell the Delaware vacation home and move pretty much everything, including the Old Judge cards, back to your main home in Wisconsin. Are you telling me you would now have to pay Wisconsin sales tax on all that stuff you brought back from Delaware, including the OJ cards? What about if you moved items from a former place where you paid a 4% sales tax on everything to a new state/location where you're now subject to an 8% sales tax, do you now owe the additional 4% sales tax difference to the new state/location you brought the items to?

Now if you instead would buy and have cards shipped to one of the PWCC or Goldin "vaults", and then wait say six weeks or so after you had something delivered there before telling whoever (PWCC or Goldin) was holding them for you to now send those cards to you at your Wisconsin home, and you kept doing it with every card you purchased and initially had sent to your "vault", now I can definitely see a potential problem if Wisconsin ever figured out what you were doing. So there may be a big gray area in there.