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Originally Posted by EPutnam1863
Back in 1999 this was not a problem. We were living in Virginia and made an online purchase from a furniture company in North Carolina. We were not aware we would have to pay sales tax because it was not done in the other states we lived in.
Two years after we left Virginia, we received a dunning letter from Virginia, saying we owed sales taxes on the table that we purchased in NC via the Internet. They said it was delivered to us in VA and therefore we had to pay the sales tax. If we had driven to NC to pick up the table, we would not have had to pay the VA sales tax although we would have to pay the NC tax.
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You owed a use tax (same as a sales tax) on goods you bring into your home state. A lot of states ask you to report the tax on the state income tax return. So the item you bought was subject to the tax and now the seller is to collect and pay the state and you do not have to file a tax return and pay to the state.