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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
If I buy something in New Mexico, I pay their sales tax. Texas does not collect sales tax for things bought in other states. If a New Mexican buys in Texas, they have to pay our sales tax. Same with Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Now the other day, I placed 3 orders at Amazon.
The first one had sales tax. It was sold and shipped from Amazon to a Texas address.
The second had no tax because it went to a different state.
The last one was sold by a 3rd party and fulfilled by Amazon. No tax but going to a Texas residence.
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I was not referring to sales tax, but to "use tax": the tax that is due if you purchase something online (or by some other method) that you don't pay sales tax on. In such circumstances, you have to pay a use tax that is equivalent to the amount of sales tax that you would have paid had you purchased the item in Texas.
ie as specified here:
https://www.comptroller.texas.gov/ta...es/use-tax.php
There is massive fraud with use tax; a huge number of people don't pay it. In the example you cite above, you owe use tax on the third order, because no sales tax was paid on it, and the product is being used or consumed in Texas.