Engines in Hershey

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Originally Posted by Scott NY

If you pay for it before hand and just pick it up in Hershey you do not have to pay the sales tax

Hey Scott, this kinda counters what I/we have been instructed in this regard. If whomever the Seller is, has ICC Authority with the Dept of Transportation, then theoretically the engine can be received outside of the Seller's home state being sales tax free, however the Seller must prove the entire business transaction was consummated outside of his home state, AND there was never any nexus in Pennsylvania.

Where this is even getting more sticky is many states are enforcing old laws on their books for collecting 'Use Tax'. I am a member of NFIB, and I saw something a couple years ago in their newsletter where States are cracking down on patrons of mass-merchandiser mail order firms (Amazon, Zoro, RockAuto, et/al) and requiring them to pay Use Tax on items that were purchased thru interstate commerce. In other words, a large company gets audited and these auditors look to see how much was mail-ordered and to whom. Let's say they look down the list and noticed Mr. McGrew has purchased around $2,500 in merchandise over the past couple of years from this company being audited. The auditors realize they have lost out on collecting state's sales tax for their state (due to the interstate sales) however they are all too happy to forward information to the Buyer's home state in exchange from that state's auditors forwarding information regarding audits that pertain to recipients of their state. Now Mr. McGrew gets a letter from his home state's Dept. of Revenue demanding the 8% sales use tax along with penalty & interest for items that have been mail-ordered in.

While all of this seems crazy, you have some big-time retailers on both sides fighting on this. Everyone needs to take a moment and think of who their big retailers are in their town, ...and then think about the sales revenue they are losing to locals who are buying stuff on-line. Many states (Tennessee included) have started making out-of-state mail-order company collect sales tax for the state it is being shipped to. I suspect that will become prevalent nationwide before long. I realize this went off-track from the O/P's question but I think he got his answer earlier.