Exam 23: State and Local Taxes

Gordon operates the Tennis Pro Shop in Blacksburg, Virginia. Tennis Pro has payroll as follows: The other total includes $10,000 of salary of a Virginia employee that works part time in another state. What is Tennis Pro's Virginia payroll numerator and payroll factor?

The throwback rule requires a company, for apportionment purposes, to include all sales of inventory sold into a state without income tax nexus rather than from the state from where the inventory was shipped.

Immaterial violations of the solicitation rules automatically create income tax nexus.

The National Bellas Hess decision held that an out-of-state mail-order company did not have sales tax collection responsibility because it lacked physical presence.

Wacky Wendy produces gourmet cheese in Wisconsin. Wendy has sales as follows: Wendy is a Wisconsin Corporation and has the following operations: Wendy has income tax nexus in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The Michigan sales are shipped from Wisconsin (a throwback state). $100,000 of the Wisconsin sales were to the federal government. What is Wendy's Wisconsin sale numerator?

Public Law 86-272 protects only companies selling tangible personal property.

The state tax base is computed by making adjustments to federal taxable income.

Which of the items is correct regarding a use tax?

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

Gordon operates the Tennis Pro Shop in Blacksburg, Virginia. Tennis Pro sells, manufacturers, 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 10 states (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, District of Columbia, New Jersey). 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?

Which of the following is true regarding state and local taxes?

Roxy operates a dress shop in Arlington, Virginia. Lisa, a Maryland resident, comes in for a measurement and purchases a $1,500 dress. Lisa returns to Virginia a few weeks later to pick up the dress and drive it back to her Maryland residence where she will use the property. Assuming that Virginia's sales tax rate is 5 percent and that Maryland's sales tax rate is 6 percent, what is Roxy's sales tax liability?

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

Gordon operates the Tennis Pro Shop in Blacksburg, Virginia. The Shop sells, manufacturers, and customizes tennis racquets for serious amateurs. Virginia has a 5 percent sales tax. Assume that a District of Columbia customer picks up a $2,000 racquet order in the Blacksburg store and drives it back to the District of Columbia (where the sales tax rate is 8.5 percent). Determine the sales and use tax liability (assume the Shop has no sales personnel or property in District of Columbia) of the customer?

Which of the following isn't a criteria used to determine whether a unitary relationship exists?

Assume Tennis Pro attends a sports equipment expo in Washington State. Assume this activity creates nexus for the Business and Occupation (B&O) tax. Assume the tax is 0.5% of gross receipts for retailers and 1.5% of gross receipts on services. If Tennis Pro has $20,000 of Washington retail sales and $2,000 of services performed, calculate Tennis Pro's B&O tax.

Which of the following law types is not a primary authority source?

Mahre, Incorporated, a New York corporation, runs ski tours in a 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 (0 percent), New York (8 percent), and Vermont (5 percent). How much sales and use tax must Mahre collect and remit?

Carolina's Hats has the following sales, payroll and property factors: What is Carolina's Hats North and South Carolina apportionment factors if North Carolina uses an equally-weighted three-factor formula and South Carolina uses a double-weighted sales factor formula? (Round your answers to two decimal places.)

Mighty Manny, Incorporated manufactures and services deli machinery and distributes them across the United States. Mighty Manny is incorporated and headquartered in New Jersey. It has product sales in all 50 states. Mighty Manny 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.