Horizon Charging Sales Tax

[xviper]

Hugh, you are very fortunate. I pay tax on everything purchased and stuff from outside of Canada, I also pay for brokerage fees except for the few occasions when Canada Post turns a blind eye.

[radfordc]

xviper I actually never pay any tax at all with anything shipped to me from MRC (almost always with free shipping to boot). I do not get charged any tax even from the shipping company, usually FedEx.

So I guess I've been unusually lucky so far to date not having to pay for sales tax and duties like a lot of you guys get hit with from other countries. I need to just shut up and count my blessings!

Hugh, you're just lucky you haven't been caught cheating on your taxes! https://taxfoundation.org/florida-online-sales-tax/

Florida says this: What we call sales taxes are really sales and use taxes, and the “use” part obligates a purchaser to remit tax to their state on any taxable sale on which they were not charged sales tax. Technically, if you shop online and the seller doesn’t charge sales tax (but the item is taxable in your state), you must remit use tax. That compliance is low does not mean the tax doesn’t exist.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Hugh, you're just lucky you haven't been caught cheating on your taxes! https://taxfoundation.org/florida-online-sales-tax/

Florida says this: What we call sales taxes are really sales and use taxes, and the “use” part obligates a purchaser to remit tax to their state on any taxable sale on which they were not charged sales tax. Technically, if you shop online and the seller doesn’t charge sales tax (but the item is taxable in your state), you must remit use tax. That compliance is low does not mean the tax doesn’t exist.

Yes you are 100% correct and I do know that. Unfortunately my overly honest accountant has always kept me paying probably more than I even owe, so at the end of the day, I end up paying more than my fair share of sales tax. Just thought it was curious that HH charges but MRC does not and leaves it up to the shippers or the customers.