As a CPA & Attorney that specializes in sales tax, you can take this answer to the bank.
If you are selling and installing cabinets, then you are NOT allowed to charge sales tax to your customers. You are improving real property and it is outside the scope of sales tax. However, you have to pay USE TAX on your "cost price" of materials and shop labor (not field labor). It is complicated, but you should build in the use tax into your bid, but you may not charge sales tax as a separate line item to your customers. Any customers you charge sales tax in this type of job will be entitled to a right to a refund of the sales tax.
If you are merely selling the cabinets (without installing), then you have to charge sales tax unless the customer can provide you with an exemption certificate from the FL DOR (such as a church).
If you are merely installing cabinets (without selling the cabinets), then there is no sales tax. Installation labor is beyond the scope of sales tax.
If you have been handling this wrong, then I'd be glad to discuss how to correct the matter in the past and going forward. JamesSutton@FloridaSalesTax.com or www.FloridaSalesTax.com.
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How do I get a florida retail sales chart
The highest sales tax rates in Florida are in Madison and Escambia counties at 7.50%.
Florida charges sales tax on a very few services, however, if tangible personal property is given to the client in the performance of services, then the whole service can be subject to sales tax. It is a tricky area of Florida sales tax law. Below is a link to a detailed article that spells out what services are subject to sales tax and how to what out for the "might be taxable" scenarios. http://www.floridasalestax.com/Florida-Tax-Law-Blog/2012/May/WHAT-SERVICES-ARE-SUBJECT-TO-SALES-TAX-IN-FLORID.aspx
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You will pay sales tax where you register the vehicle. Last time I checked Florida has sales tax...
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Last time I checked, you did not have to pay sales tax in Florida if you gave someone a car. You had to pay a title transfer tax. That may have changed. It has changed a number of times.
you pay the tax of the state that you bought it in
You should not have to pay sales taxes in Florida if it was a gift. Cloud Chaserz
The answer is - it depends, but the answer is somewhat complicated. If you have the car shipped directly from the dealer to your home state, then no Florida sales tax applies. Let's presume you are driving the car off the lot yourself. Florida will charge you sales tax on this purchase, but if the right paperwork is filled out (Form DR-123), then the sales tax rate will only be as high your home state sale tax rate (with a ceiling of the Florida sales tax rate). So if you live in a state with a 3% sales tax, the Florida dealer should only charge you a 3% sales tax if you sign the right forms. Any sales tax you pay in Florida can be credited to the taxes that are due when you get your tag in your home state. Worthy of note, if your state has a zero sales tax rate on cars (such as Montana or Georgia), then the dealer does not have to charge you Florida sales tax. I'm a Florida CPA & Attorney that does almost nothing but Florida sales and use tax controversy. I hope this answer helps. James Sutton, CPA, Esq. WWW FLORIDASALESTAX COM
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Florida is going to want you to pay the sales tax in Florida (and, of course, Illinois is going to want you to pay the sales tax in Illinois). If you immediately register the car in Florida, you are going to have to pay sales tax there (and can probably get out of paying it in Illinois). If you register it in Illinois first, then you'll probably have to pay tax in both locations. The only state I definitively know the rules for is Massachusetts, where you must pay sales tax on any car you have owned for less than a year when you first register it there. They tried to make me pay sales tax on my car in MA when I moved there since I was registering it in February 1992 and had purchased it in February 1991, but fortunately the specific dates of purchase showed I'd owned it for 367 days, and I got out of paying the sales tax.
You have to pay taxes on the car where you register it.
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