Exam 12: State and Local Taxes

Gordon operates the Tennis Pro Shop in Blacksburg, Virginia. The shop sells, manufactures, and customizes tennis racquets for serious amateurs. Virginia has a 5 percent sales tax. Tennessee has a 4 percent sales tax. Determine the sales and use tax liability that the shop must collect and remit if it sells a $500 racquet to a Tennessee resident that purchases the merchandise in the Virginia retail store?

Mahre, Incorporated, a New York corporation, runs ski tours in several states. Mahre also has a New York retail store and an Internet store, which ships to out-of-state customers. The ski tours operate in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, where Mahre has employees and owns and uses tangible personal property. Mahre has real property only in New York. Mahre has the following sales: Assume the following sales tax rates: Alaska (0 percent), Colorado (7.75 percent), Maine (8.5 percent), New Hampshire (6.75 percent), New York (8 percent), and Vermont (5 percent). How much sales and use tax must Mahre collect and remit in Maine?

Gordon operates the Tennis Pro Shop in Blacksburg, Virginia. Tennis Pro has property as follows: What is Tennis Pro's Virginia property numerator and property factor? (Round the property factor to two places.)

Businesses subject to income tax in more than one jurisdiction have the right to apportionment.

Mighty Manny, Incorporated manufactures and services deli machinery and distributes it across the United States. Mighty Manny is incorporated and headquartered in New Jersey. It has product sales in all 50 states. New Jersey is the only state in which Mighty Manny exceeds the Wayfair sales thresholds. Mighty Manny's service employees work in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Mighty Manny also has an executive training seminar each year in South Carolina. Determine the states in which Mighty Manny has sales tax nexus.

Mighty Manny, Incorporated manufactures and services deli machinery and distributes it across the United States. Mighty Manny is incorporated and headquartered in New Jersey. It has sales tax nexus in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. Mighty Manny has sales as follows: Assume the following sales tax rates: Connecticut (6.75 percent), New Jersey (7.5 percent), New York (8.5 percent), Pennsylvania (6.5 percent), Rhode Island (7.25 percent), and South Carolina (5.5 percent). Assume that only Connecticut taxes Mighty Manny's services. What is Mighty Manny's total sales and use tax liability? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

In Complete Auto Transit the U.S. Supreme Court determined eight criteria for determining whether a state can tax a nondomiciliary company.

The sales and use tax base varies from state to state.

Most services are sourced to the state where the services were performed.

Giving samples and promotional materials without charge is a protected solicitation activity.

State tax law is comprised solely of legislative authority.

Wyoming imposes an income tax on corporations.

Gordon operates the Tennis Pro Shop in Blacksburg, Virginia. Tennis Pro sells, manufactures, and customizes tennis racquets for serious amateurs. Tennis Pro's business has expanded significantly over the last few years. Currently, it has sales personnel in 9 states (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, and New Jersey) and the District of Columbia. All sales activity in all of these states is limited to solicitation. Orders are taken by the sales team and forwarded to Blacksburg for approval. All orders are sent by common carrier to customers. Tennis Pro owns retail and warehouse space in Virginia and has another warehouse in Kentucky. Where does Tennis Pro have income tax nexus?

Several states are now moving from a strict physical presence test toward an economic presence test for income taxes.

All of the following are false regarding apportionment except?

Hoosier Incorporated is an Indiana corporation. It properly included, deducted, or excluded the following items on its federal tax return in the current year: State depreciation expense was $51,300. Hoosier's federal taxable income was $151,600. Calculate Hoosier's Indiana state tax base.

Wacky Wendy produces gourmet cheese in Wisconsin. Wendy has sales as follows: Wendy is a Wisconsin corporation and has the following operations: Wendy hasincome tax nexus in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The Michigan sales are shipped from Wisconsin (a throwback state). $101,500 of the Wisconsin sales were to the federal government. What is Wendy's Wisconsin sale numerator?

Which of the following businesses is likely to have taxable sales for purposes of sales and use tax?

The Wayfair decision reversed the Quill decision, which had affirmed that out-of-state businesses must have physical presence within a state before the state may require the collection of sales taxes from in-state customers.

Tennis Pro has the following sales, payroll, and property factors: What would Tennis Pro's Virginia and Maryland apportionment factors be if Virginia used a double-weighted sales four-factor method and Maryland used a single-factor sales formula?