Harold wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] Digikey to charge sales tax?' on Wed, Feb 15 at 10:50:
> Residents of states with sales tax are supposed to pay "Use Tax" on
> interstate purchase.

Amusingly enough, IL residents are supposed to file form ST-44 at tax
time only if they have spent less than $600.  If at any time more than
$600 is spent out-of-state (US or not) and the tax rate paid was less
than the 6.25% IL charges (add another 1% for drugs), the form is
supposed to be filed by the last day of the month following the month
in which the purchase was made.  So if I buy, say, a new rear axle
assembly and a hood from a MO junkyard, and pay $600 without paying
local sales tax, I'm supposed to pay sales tax directly to the state
of IL by the end of next month.

Sigh.  There's a late filing penalty and a late payment penalty, as
well as an under reporting penalty.  There's also form RC-44 for
cigarette purchases and RUT-25 for automobiles/etc, with more taxes.
I wonder if my paying that tax will get the road I take to work
fixed, or some funding for schools outside of Chicagoland...  I think
I'll just go volunteer at the local high school instead of paying an
almost completely unenforcable tax.

--Danny
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