[NR] New Oklahoma Tax Law and Merchants
Burke McCrory
burkemc at cox.net
Tue Aug 5 23:54:38 PDT 2003
At 02:13 AM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/6/2003 1:55:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>chass at cox.net writes:
>
> > Hmm I must contact my local State office and find out about this.
> Because as
> > a Merchant I get a discount if I send in early which I wouldnt get if I
> > handed over to someone else to handel. So if it goes to
> > that then I will
> > only do order sales at events.
> >
> > Chass
>
> Apparently the law is intended to increase sales tax collections at
> gun shows and flea markets by making the people running the show or
> market responsible for collecting the tax rather than trusting the seller
> to do it. It's unclear if this will apply to us or not, but until we
> learn otherwise we have to assume that it does.
> If you know of any merchants who might be coming to an event in OK
> soon please make sure they hear about this. I would hate for someone to
> bring their stuff to an event and not be able to sell it.
>
>Robert
The new law applies to merchants that do not already have Oklahoma Sales
Tax permits. Robert is correct when he said that the law was primarily
aimed a gatherings of transient merchants (ie flea markets, gun shows.
etc.) who do not have Oklahoma Sale Tax permits. Unfortunately as is
their want, the Legislature has used a shotgun instead of a pea
shooter. The law is so broadly written that it covers just about
everything but school functions and State, county, regional fairs.
Burke
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