Will the sales tax be charged according to the billing address or the shipping address? Specifically at dell.c

Answer 1

shipping

Answer 2

In most cases, the sales tax will be collected for the state where the item is shipped. However, the real answer is that the sales tax is due for the state where the item is eventually to be USED by the consumer.

Example: You live in a state with a sales tax, but you live near the border of a state with no sales tax. You have the new computer shipped to the address in the "no sales tax" state. The seller (Dell) would not charge you the sales tax, based upon the usual situation that they are usually shipping the computer to the place where the consumer is using the computer.

But if you pick up the computer from your friends house in the "no sales tax" state and bring it back to your own state, then you will owe the sales tax to your home state. Dell would not have collected the tax for you, since you had them ship it elsewhere and they did not know it's ultimate destination. But you would be required to pay the sales tax to your home state.

Some states add this tax to their annual state income tax form. Some states have a seperate form you need to get and fill out to pay this tax. In practice, many people evade (ignore) this tax because it is difficult for the states to enforce.

Answer 3

Shipping address.

Your state of residency, your credit cards billing address or the location where you were physically when you placed the order have no impact at all. If you are living in New Hampshire (a no sales tax state) and place an Internet order for delivery to Aunt Bessie in California, California's tax laws apply. If you are in a Texas airport (a state with a sales tax) and order something from a California catalog business to be shipped to your kid in college in Colorado using your credit card with a Ohio mailing address, Colorado tax law applies.

See the link below for what Dell says

Answer 4

Sales Taxes should be charged based on where the product actually changes hands. In this case: The shipping address.

Answer 5

billing