[CASL-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: Book fair tax in ct

[Melissa Thom]

Follett did bookfairs for a couple of years but ended them this past year.

I am not familiar with Titlewish but I will have to check it out.

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 8:52 AM Joan Tichy <jtichy at sheltonpublicschools.org>
wrote:

> I don’t think Follett is doing book fairs…they do Titlewish…there are
> several libraries in my district that found this very successful.  Joa
>
> 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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