Comments on: NH Retailers Not Required to Enforce Sales or Use Tax Collection for States Outside NH http://rattelaw.com/2009/12/04/nh-retailers-not-required-to-enforce-sales-or-use-tax-collection-for-states-outside-nh/ Small Business and Real Estate Law for New Hampshire and Maine Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Merrill Clark http://rattelaw.com/2009/12/04/nh-retailers-not-required-to-enforce-sales-or-use-tax-collection-for-states-outside-nh/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Merrill Clark Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:20:01 +0000 http://rattelaw.com/?p=294#comment-237 Hi Chris, That is indeed great news for New Hampshire businesses. In a previous business I owned a few years ago, the State of Maine came after me to collect several years of "Maine sales tax" that I supposedly should have collected and forwarded to them to the tune of almost $8,000 plus penalties and interest. Ouch! Unfortunately for me, rulings like this didn't exist and I didn't have the resources to fight the Sate of Maine. Oh well, expensive lessons learned I guess. Maybe we can fight the State of Maine to get my money back retroactively plus interest and penalties. Yeah right... Thanks for the good info. Merrill Hi Chris,

That is indeed great news for New Hampshire businesses.

In a previous business I owned a few years ago, the State of Maine came after me to collect several years of “Maine sales tax” that I supposedly should have collected and forwarded to them to the tune of almost $8,000 plus penalties and interest. Ouch!

Unfortunately for me, rulings like this didn’t exist and I didn’t have the resources to fight the Sate of Maine.

Oh well, expensive lessons learned I guess.

Maybe we can fight the State of Maine to get my money back retroactively plus interest and penalties.

Yeah right…

Thanks for the good info.
Merrill

]]> By: Chris_Ratte http://rattelaw.com/2009/12/04/nh-retailers-not-required-to-enforce-sales-or-use-tax-collection-for-states-outside-nh/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Chris_Ratte Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:51:38 +0000 http://rattelaw.com/?p=294#comment-231 Thanks for the update, Steve. It'll be interesting to see what happens next in this story. Thanks for the update, Steve. It’ll be interesting to see what happens next in this story.

]]> By: Steven Feinberg http://rattelaw.com/2009/12/04/nh-retailers-not-required-to-enforce-sales-or-use-tax-collection-for-states-outside-nh/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Steven Feinberg Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:54:09 +0000 http://rattelaw.com/?p=294#comment-230 Chris, There is further news relative to this post, ie., that on October 12, 2009 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court refused to allow the Department of Revenue to create and then to enforce retroactively new interpretations of tax rules that significantly harm law-abiding businesses and individuals. See http://www.taxhistory.org/taxbase/stnmagsample.nsf/ConNavLink/0054STN0138-0001?OpenDocument We're all glad about New Hampshire's response to the original case, but I believe New Hampshire businesses avoided another dart as a result of the Massachusetts court decision to tell the Mass Department of Revenue to back off! Thanks, Steve Chris,

There is further news relative to this post, ie., that on October 12, 2009 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court refused to allow the Department of Revenue to create and then to enforce retroactively new interpretations of tax rules that significantly harm law-abiding businesses and individuals.

See http://www.taxhistory.org/taxbase/stnmagsample.nsf/ConNavLink/0054STN0138-0001?OpenDocument

We’re all glad about New Hampshire’s response to the original case, but I believe New Hampshire businesses avoided another dart as a result of the Massachusetts court decision to tell the Mass Department of Revenue to back off!

Thanks,
Steve

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