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- From: wicklund@intellistor.com (Tom Wicklund)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: Wierd CA Sales Tax Law
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.152104.11415@intellistor.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:21:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.230000.2955@tss.com> <PHR.92Jul29214647@soda.berkeley.edu>
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- In <PHR.92Jul29214647@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
-
- > [Story about how Togo's charges sales tax for hot sandwiches and
- > carbonated drinks to go, but not cold s/w's or uncarb. drinks]
-
- >The idea is you're not supposed to get charged tax on food that you
- >buy to take home and eat later (a "necessity"). However, hot sandwiches,
- >carbonated drinks in open containers, etc. obviously aren't intended
- >to be consumed that way.
-
- Colorado had a similar situation about 14 years ago (I don't know if
- it's true today, every city has a different tax rate and I don't try
- to track them).
-
- At one point, a city official stated that if one bought a cup of
- coffee and put a lid on, it should be charged at the lower rate; if
- without a lid, at the higher rate.
-
- The problem with this was that the state and city collected the larger
- of actual sales tax receipts or what should have been received based
- on invoices. The business probably had to pay at the higher rate
- regardless.
-