[Sca-cooks] Getting discounted foods - was: Menus

[Bill Fisher]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:07:43 -0500, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
<adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
> My own experience (and others' mileage may vary greatly) is that
> offering conspicuously to pay cash -- especially if your supplier is
> not part of a big national chain -- will make sales tax, a tax
> certificate, and license unnecessary.
> 
> I think part of the problem is that while we're not-for-profit, the
> tax certificate does not entitle us to the kind of discount designed
> for resellers.
> 
> Adamantius, former exchequer whose info may be obsolete

Yeah, they are looking  for a business sales tax license that shows
that you are buying for a business and then going to charge sales 
tax on your sale.  Wholesalers have to report which tax numbers they
sell to and what dollar amounts to the state government, otherwise
they get charged the sales tax for those items.

In some states, like PA, food is untaxed, so they can let the general
populace shop in the wholesale stores with no trouble.  Most of the time
the home buyer is not going to buy food in the quantities that make it
worthwhile for the wholesaler to sell to them since they would have to
break up gross orders to do this.

Cadoc
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