[carenot]

If I go to buy a car, how does the dealer know if it is for personal or business purposes? It must be based on what I tell them. And if the buyer of the car is dishonest, who will come back and determine the buyer should have paid the tax.

Doesn't matter, it is retail.

You would be the end consumer. :)

[Always Right]

Doesn't matter, it is retail. You would be the end consumer. :)

Yes it matters. If a business uses the product to produce, render, or sell the item or in the normal course of business it is not supposed to be taxed. This is a loophole that will be used and abused.

[scubadan]

You win!! I give up trying to express any logic or sense in this conversation. Either businesses are exempt from the tax or all purchases are retail. It can't be both. If all purchases are retail, it's a misstatement that businesses are exempt from the tax. If businesses are exempt than complaince will be an issue.

One of those facts must be true no matter how hard you try to ignore them.