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caasen
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« on: May 06, 2008, 11:21:46 AM »

Does your office or in your State do they charge sales tax on blueprints or copies of plan sets?

Speaking to a friend, he told me their firm was visited by the TAX MAN and told that when they sell or charge someone for plan sets or sheets that MINNESOTA requires Sales Tax be charged.

Anyone else from Minnesota or other States deal with this?
Does your firm charge for plan sets?
Do you charge or collect sales tax?

Seems like quite a bit of redtape.  How does your firm charge or deal with this.  This is the first I ever heard of this, yet my friend was told this changed 2-years ago.  The TAX MAN may go back through their records and charge them.  Of all the firms I have worked for, I do not recall ever seeing Sales Tax being charged.

Would it not be better to just estimate plan set printing costs and include a contract item Misc. project expences "Lump Sum" or just include the costs into the project?
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Christopher
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2008, 08:44:56 AM »

They tried something similar in Connecticut a while back but it was on all of our services just not the prints.  What the politicians soon found out was that there was more work on the part of the State than what they were receiving in tax monies.  That being said we no longer have to worry about it, thank god.  Our job is hard enough with all the other red tape.

I agree that anything you can do to make it easier on yourself and your company will be a huge plus.  As long as you won't violate any laws or tax codes I do not see an issue with providing your clients with an estimate cost for printing and then just adding it to the contract fee.  This is something we routinely do.  You just need to be careful to not under or over estimate the expense.
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