[CASL-L] Book fair tax in ct

[Cheryl Robertson]

Hi All,
I looked into this back in the fall and found that the law to which Ariel
referred is still valid.  I held a five-day, tax-free book fair in the
fall, so I will charge tax during my spring book fair.
Best,
Cheryl

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 4:08 PM Ariel Wander <aocean1127 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Audra,
>
> I did a ton of research on this topic a number of years back when I was a
> school librarian and ran the first Follett book fair in CT. I spoke with
> people at DRS and read the laws. The simple answer is that you are required
> to charge sales tax every day of the year on all sales except five calendar
> days. You get to choose which five calendar days to not collect sales tax
> each year, but outside of those five days, you need to collect it. This
> means that if your PTO does something like runs a book fair for five
> calendar days and then a holds an auction on a sixth day, the PTO must
> charge sales tax on one of those days.
>
> Follett was requiring this to be extra safe because at the time,
> Scholastic was involved in litigation for failure to collect sales tax
> pursuant to this law.
>
> Please keep in mind that I looked into this back in 2018 or 2019 so it’s
> possible that a new law may have changed this, although I haven’t heard of
> one.
>
> Best of luck!
> Ariel
>
> Ariel Wander
> Public Service Librarian
> Westbrook Public Library
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 22, 2022, at 3:35 PM, Audra Good <agood247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do you charge CT sales tax on book fair sales? I used to not then did
> for Follett last spring but I’m hearing mixed results for scholastic. We
> charged this past fall but I’d love to go back to tax exempt. My PTO and
> school both have tax exempt status. I did not charge for any books for the
> school.
> >
> > Thoughts? Help! Sales start tomorrow so I have to make this call quick,
> feel free to email me directly.
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