Well, screw B&H
08-30-18 | 11:32 AM
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Well, screw B&H
I just saw this on the B&H website...
So, you're not going to collect tax, but you're going to fucking report the sale to my state? Lazy fucking pussies. Either tell them to fuck off or actually collect tax. I don't like these idiots anyway because they're religious zealots who shutdown the goddamn website checkout on Saturdays for no fucking reason.
If your order is shipping to an address in New Jersey or New York State, or being picked up in our Manhattan SuperStore, local sales tax will be automatically assessed unless the account is registered as tax-exempt. We do not collect taxes on any other domestic (USA) orders. However, we are legally required to report certain purchases to the local state taxation departments in Colorado, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Puerto Rico. If you reside in any of these areas, please check with your local government to see if your purchases are subject to a use tax.
08-30-18 | 11:41 AM
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I used to have to do business with them for my job and I agree that they're shady as they come. That being said, they close down on Sat due to Shabbat. The owners are Hasidic Jewish. No different than a Christian business not opening on Sunday. Not accepting orders through their site is strange though; since those wouldn't get processed till Monday anyway.
08-30-18 | 02:43 PM
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08-30-18 | 03:08 PM
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I used to have to do business with them for my job and I agree that they're shady as they come. That being said, they close down on Sat due to Shabbat. The owners are Hasidic Jewish. No different than a Christian business not opening on Sunday. Not accepting orders through their site is strange though; since those wouldn't get processed till Monday anyway.
08-30-18 | 03:11 PM
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Orthodox Judaism has some pretty stringent rules when it comes to observing Shabbat, like not being allowed to dial telephones, or turn electricity on or off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat
08-30-18 | 05:11 PM
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I just saw this on the B&H website...
...However, we are legally required to report certain purchases to the local state taxation departments in Colorado, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Puerto Rico. If you reside in any of these areas, please check with your local government to see if your purchases are subject to a use tax.
08-30-18 | 05:23 PM
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Orders would go to their offsite email anyway! Who the fuck hosts their website on their own server nowadays!?!?!? Cutting the power to their building has nothing to do with it. Hell, it's not even their fucking building. Odds are it's rented. Most of them use every fucked up technicality possible to do what they want anyway.
08-30-18 | 07:12 PM
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Why do I get the feeling this thread was filled with a bunch of anti-semitic comments? 
08-31-18 | 08:17 AM
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This has always been the rule for internet tax. But nobody actually reports any of it. And nobody is ever going to bother you over a $2000 purchase. If you're a company buying for use in your daily operations (ie a photographer, or anyone in a/v), you're likely tax exempt anyways.
Every purchase you ever made on the internet (and have not paid sales tax on) should technically have taxes paid per your local tax law. You're technically supposed to record every purchase and contact your local Department of Revenue to pay. The rule was made prior to the internet. The only instance I've ever heard of this being an issue, is with people who avoid tax on car purchases.
I believe that Hasidic Jews consult a Rabbi, who advises them on things like the downtime. They take it very seriously.
Every purchase you ever made on the internet (and have not paid sales tax on) should technically have taxes paid per your local tax law. You're technically supposed to record every purchase and contact your local Department of Revenue to pay. The rule was made prior to the internet. The only instance I've ever heard of this being an issue, is with people who avoid tax on car purchases.
I believe that Hasidic Jews consult a Rabbi, who advises them on things like the downtime. They take it very seriously.
09-16-18 | 09:58 PM
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This has always been the rule for internet tax. But nobody actually reports any of it. And nobody is ever going to bother you over a $2000 purchase. If you're a company buying for use in your daily operations (ie a photographer, or anyone in a/v), you're likely tax exempt anyways.
Every purchase you ever made on the internet (and have not paid sales tax on) should technically have taxes paid per your local tax law. You're technically supposed to record every purchase and contact your local Department of Revenue to pay. The rule was made prior to the internet. The only instance I've ever heard of this being an issue, is with people who avoid tax on car purchases.
I believe that Hasidic Jews consult a Rabbi, who advises them on things like the downtime. They take it very seriously.
Every purchase you ever made on the internet (and have not paid sales tax on) should technically have taxes paid per your local tax law. You're technically supposed to record every purchase and contact your local Department of Revenue to pay. The rule was made prior to the internet. The only instance I've ever heard of this being an issue, is with people who avoid tax on car purchases.
I believe that Hasidic Jews consult a Rabbi, who advises them on things like the downtime. They take it very seriously.
