Shipping a laptop Computer Advice Needed?

[demyansk]

Check this out, I go to order a MSI laptop this morning and want to ship it to TN. Guess what? --- $120.00 tax on the laptop due to it being TN. Therefore, if I ship to NY, no tax.

What does anyone recommend for sending the laptop through the mail from NY to TN?

USPS?
UPS?

Someone was saying in another forum about a flate rate box from Postal Service?

[wings7]

ORIGINAL: demjansk

Check this out, I go to order a MSI laptop this morning and want to ship it to TN. Guess what? --- $120.00 tax on the laptop due to it being TN. Therefore, if I ship to NY, no tax.

What does anyone recommend for sending the laptop through the mail from NY to TN?

USPS?
UPS?

Someone was saying in another forum about a flate rate box from Postal Service?

Either one is fine, although I would lean towards UPS...

[cpdeyoung]

In South Carolina we are responsible for taxes on purchases made out of state.

We pay these taxes in a "use" tax with our income tax return. You may have a similar system in Tennessee, in which case there is no gain from shipping to NY.

Chuck

[Will_L_OLD]

Kind of the same in NY. Have to pay NY sales tax on purchases made where tax is not charged
or out of state purchase brought into NY which is done on state income tax form, instructions read,
"do not leave blank." You can keep track of your actual purchases and do the math, put in a suggested amount
($35 if I remember correctly) or make something up [;)] "$0, I didn't buy anything, I swear!" [:'(]

[Qwixt]

I would never ship a computer through US postal service aka USPS. UPS or Fedex only for me.

If a business has stores or a presence in a state, then it is required to collect sales tax. So the place you bought it from probably doesn't have any stores or businesses in NY.

[demyansk]

Thanks guys, I am going to ship through FedEx.

[aaatoysandmore]

Soon they will be taxing us for air. Oh wait I had to pay a $1 to air up my tires just the other day. [:D] It's funny how all this stuff used to be free when I was a kid. Airing your tires, buying things out of state, no tax. I wonder when they are going to tax food and medicine?

[wings7]

ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore

Soon they will be taxing us for air. Oh wait I had to pay a $1 to air up my tires just the other day. [:D] It's funny how all this stuff used to be free when I was a kid. Airing your tires, buying things out of state, no tax. I wonder when they are going to tax food and medicine?

[>:]

[Will_L_OLD]

Don't use FedEx Ground, I had a laptop scheduled to be delivered on the 27th by them and they dropped at the wrong address.
Luckily it was delivered to a neighbor a block away that knows me and called to let me know where it was.
FedEx Ground used to be RDS.

ORIGINAL: demjansk

Thanks guys, I am going to ship through FedEx.