Useage Tax (Manchester, Salem, Haverhill: sales, 2010, renting)

[Katlakat]

Feel free to read if you haven't already, join me in beating your head against this beautiful wall I've picked out....and discuss!

Massachusetts pursues sales taxes on tires bought by residents across the border - The Boston Globe

[maestramommy]

Talk about greedy! Why should MA get tax benefit from NH sales??

[Katlakat]

My DH told me to look this story up he just read about. I tell you I walked in circles so aggrivated!

I just got past the "view tax" the house I'm renting has slapped on it, but now they want to know what and where you'll be using non-taxed NH goods in? So if I want to drive to Alaska.....where I shove my tires is my BUSINESS!!

OMG......can you feel the skin melting off my hot red face?

Are we having a revolution yet? Plz Draft me, I'm hot and ready for battle!

[nicolem]

Well that is what happens with states that are overrun with tax and spenders-they always want and "need" more of people's $$ never less. This is currently being heard before the Mass high court and here are updated articles:

Mass. high court to hear tire sales tax case - NewsFlash - MassLive.com

UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - Mass. justices take on border tax issue - Friday, May. 8, 2009

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by Katlakat

My DH told me to look this story up he just read about. I tell you I walked in circles so aggrivated!

I just got past the "view tax" the house I'm renting has slapped on it, but now they want to know what and where you'll be using non-taxed NH goods in? So if I want to drive to Alaska.....where I shove my tires is my BUSINESS!!

OMG......can you feel the skin melting off my hot red face?

Are we having a revolution yet? Plz Draft me, I'm hot and ready for battle!

There is plenty going on here in NH-do some googling and get involved- NH has a lot of people who are not happy with the tax and spending that has gone on in recent years and there is a movement to oust the tax and spenders from the NH statehouse in 2010 and to try and prevent additional nonsense like this coming up from MA.

[seamusnh]

Of course, there are ways around it. Borrow a friends car. Take the wheels and tires off your car and leave it on blocks or jackstands. Drive to NH with the wheels with the old tires. Buy tires in NH and have the company mount and balance the tires on the wheels. Tell the store you live in NH. Drive home and put your wheels on the car.

Or, you can go to NH and buy the tires. Drive back to NH and take the tags off the new tires. Go to a tire shop in MA and pay them to mount and balance the tires for you. That shop does not have to know where you got the new tires.

Anyone can buy tires from tirerack.com and have them shipped to their house. No sales tax there.

[Brave Stranger]

Every day brings a new outrage. This case is so irrational it should not even be in court. The Massachusetts "use tax" needs to be collected from Massachusetts residents.....not by forcing NH business concerns to be their "tax collector".

[WannaComeHome]

I just don't understand: they can't force NH to collect the tax if NH doesn't want to. Kinda like, you have to allow yourself to be a doormat to be used as one - if you stand up for yourself (I'm still learning how to say 'no' myself), no one can do that. How can MA force it?

[Yankeehombre]

From Time to time, Mass has even gone as far as conducting surveillance on Mass registered vahicles being loaded with big ticket items at the strip malls along route 28 in Salem, or even in Manchester to attempt to collect "sales taxes due to the state" of Mass.


Times are tough out there for tax collection. Of course nobody is going to volunteer to pay that they can avoid.

When I was 18, a lifelong N.H. resident, I bought a car at a mass dealer + later I moved to Mass. They tried to collect the tax from me years later after I moved there. I had to chase down the former salesman + get him to sign a noterized statement that the car was delivered in N.H. and payment was received in N.H. [of course it really wasn't]. They wouldn't allow me to register without paying the tax or submitting the statement.

There are constantly sting operations to detect cars registered at a N.H. address that are routinely parked in Mass overnight. The chief incentives for the practice is lower insurance rates and lower registration + absence of excise tax.Mostly that is a game played by Lawrence, Lowell + Haverhill border cities, with people relatives that still live in N.H.

It's been going on forever!

[OCCASparky]

Such is life when you're a (comparatively) low tax state next to a bunch of tax-and-spend neighbors.

That being said, I guess Massachusetts doesn't much care about the Constitution and interstate commerce.