By Oscar Y. Harward
In placing out-of-state purchases on
the Internet, North Carolina’s and associated local county/city governments
receive their appropriate portion of the applicable sales tax based on the home purchasers’
home address origination.
On the other hand, when I purchase a
product via telephone in NC, the sales taxes are distributed to the county/city
government(s); based on the businesses address location; not
the purchasers’ home address origination.
If a salesperson calls on you at home,
purchased applicable local sales taxes go to the county/city government(s); based
on the applicable businesses address location; not the purchasers’ home address
origination.
When you and I purchase products in
person from our homes, on the telephone, on the Internet, etc., the applicable local
sales taxes should go the county/city of purchasers’ home address origination.
Sales taxes paid on purchased products
in a store you visit in another county should continue as with the current county/city
government sales tax distribution.
New legislation is essential in
correcting an overdue wrong by providing working men and women of NC and their
local governments a fairer way to assure that ‘sales taxes
paid at home stay at home’.
