CT-100 on eBay So Cal

[kx250rider]

I'm a legal Texas resident, and the way CA sales tax works, is that you must pay it in CA for all over-the-counter sales. However, if you buy a car, you can declare Texas residency, and avoid the CA tax, but you must have a bonded shipper remove the car from the seller, and pledge to deliver it in Texas. I don't know how it works with internet sales from CA to a TX buyer. When I buy anything on the internet from a non-CA seller, and I have it sent to CA, I get charged CA tax about 1/2 the time. Probably some of that is the seller pocketing it, and some is ignorance/mistakes. I've never had to pay another state's sales tax on a CA shipment, though. I just bought a new watch band over the internet from Orange County, CA, and received it in Ventura County, CA, but paid no county tax for either county. Just the flat CA state tax. County tax jacks up the total as high as 10.75%! The base CA sales tax is 8.25%. The additional amounts are county, city, and district pollution abatement bond taxes, etc. Texas' base sales tax is 6%, but like CA, there are county & city taxes added, making my local sales tax in Dallas (technically Plano, in Collin County), 8.25%.

Charles