BC Residents Qualify for WA Tax Exemption
 

http://dor.wa.gov/docs/forms/excstx/..._quarterly.pdf

Picked this one off RFD. Probably a response to the HST to get BC'ers to come down and buy American. I think this can be both a blessing and a curse. Good, because we can save some money by going down, but bad because some people wont buy Canadian (BC) goods (which is kind of the point of the HST).

Thoughts?

Good for them?

good for us, we save 8percent tax

bad for gordo

awesome news

Amazon shopping with no tax? (amazon taxes shipments to WA) probably not though since items are shipped in wa :/

If you're here in BC and you buy stuff in WA but shipped to Point Roberts, you're still going to be taxed since you're physically not over the border?

(If that makes any sense)

^ I think you don't pay the taxes in WA but you're still required to pay for the canadian taxes when crossing the border, if the item you're bringing across is very $$

Awesome, I've been waiting for this to happen for years!

If it's Amazon and shipping from their WA facility, you'll still pay sales tax because you'd be shipping to a WA address as TypeRNammer mentioned unless they devise a way to prove to Amazon you're a Canadian.

Any online store that has a local (as in the same state) presence is required to collect sales tax. This really only benefits retail (over the counter) sales and not so much for online sales. (i.e. it's great for those of us shopping at the outlets)

Wait so no tax when buying from retail in WA? but we still get taxed for crossing back to canada when going past border right?

Yes - unless you can meet the exemption requirements (as in out of Canada for > 24 hours) you'll have to pay taxes going back into Canada.

Previously, it would have been the sales tax of the county you purchased in (which was usually around the 8% area), plus the GST+PST (12%) so you'd be paying at least 20% of your item's value in taxes. I'm assuming when this goes into place, you could just show your BC drivers license to prove you're from BC, and they won't charge you the WA taxes.

I'm not too sure how they'll handle online sales shipped to a local (WA) address. I'm going to assume that they aren't going to give you an exemption for that since they have no way of validating your residency at the time of purchase.

Tires? :D

so can someone that's read the thing summarize the thing for us lazies?

British Columbia citizens qualify for nonresident sales tax exemption

Beginning July 1, citizens of British Columbia, Canada, will qualify for an exemption from Washington State retail sales tax. The exemption applies only to items purchased for use outside our state.

from the pdf.

i mean like are there any kind of restrictions, limits etc?

yeah i was hoping that our Billing Addresses would get us off of that :D but i guess that's up to Amazon

I wonder if they'll set up a way to get such taxes refunded.

is there a date when this will come into effect if at all?

LOL, the first thing it says right at the top of his link is, Local Sales/Use tax Changes effective July 1, 2010. Someone also posted the date 4 posts up from your question.

Local Sales/Use
Tax Changes
(Effective July 1, 2010)

first line in the pdf

Cool, thanks for the news!

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG time to go shopping

sweeet! dont have to go down to portland anymore!!! does this mean cars too? lol

haha, don't go just get...you gotta wait another 25 more days! :D

awesomee