[CatOwner]

Bought a new TV for our master bedroom a couple of months ago. Purchased at a local brick-and-mortar store for about the same price as online. Nearly all reputable online retailers selling flat screen TVs are collecting sales tax for California anyway. As it is, California has a Use Tax law requiring the tax to be paid on these online purchases and has for some time. Choose to ignore this at your own risk.

[bigdaddy45]

We’re lucky here in Ohio. We can still purchase things on Amazon with no sales tax. Of course, we’re supposed to “cough cough” report it on our state income taxes and pay the sales tax there. Uh, right.

[KarlInOhio]

Nearly all reputable online retailers selling flat screen TVs are collecting sales tax for California anyway.

I don't know about TVs, but back in the 1990s California went after the PC business by telling all the major mail order retailers that they didn't have to collect tax for California, but if they didn't they would never get any California state, city or public school orders. Many (including Gateway 2000 from whom I bought a computer at the time) decided that charging California customers was a good idea even if they never had a sales nexus in the state.

[TurboZamboni]

Nearly all reputable online retailers selling flat screen TVs are collecting sales tax ..."

Same for Minnesota,too.Rats made that happen this year.