[robertpaulsen]

"However, whenever they purchase retail goods and services using their business certification they will be under scrutiny by virture of identifying themselves to the state sales tax agencies "

I see. So when I present my business certification to purchase that tax exempt gallon of gasoline for "business" purposes, or that $1500 PC for "business" purposes, these state sales tax agencies will swoop down and discover, somehow, that these purchases were really for my personal use.

I got it.

[ancient_geezer]

You got it, if you choose to claim you are a business not required to pay the NRST, you get to be audited by state sales tax authorities to assure you actually are.

What did you think, there would be no enforcement of the law??

Sheez.

[kevkrom]

rp: "So when I present my business certification to purchase that tax exempt gallon of gasoline for "business" purposes, or that $1500 PC for "business" purposes, these state sales tax agencies will swoop down and discover, somehow, that these purchases were really for my personal use."

ag: "if you choose to claim you are a business not required to pay the NRST, you get to be audited by state sales tax authorities to assure you actually are."

I'll just add that just because you use a business-exempt ceritifcate, it doesn't necessarily follow that you will get audited. The trick to enforcement will be to keep the probability of being audited will be high enough to discourage the bulk of folks from getting a little creative with their accounting...