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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8665257" data-attributes="member: 19857">Are you sure?&nbsp; I'm not a lawyer but the complaint specifically seems to be about the oxygen sales, not any other paraphernalia. (That point 4 seems to be relevant in the list because the tax statute that is cited later assumes that anything that can be weighed and measured is taxable for the purpose of NC sales tax law).From the sound of it my suspicion is that Lanasa didn't believe he had to pay sales tax on the oxygen because he was just filling tanks with pumps and then charging for access so he wasn't &quot;selling&quot; anything &quot;physical&quot;.&nbsp; Except that isn't how the law actually reads and oxygen is actually a commodity even if you're just filling tanks with air pumps in your back room and then reselling it.Two lessons to take away from this - first always check with a tax attorney if you are running a business and think that you don't need to charge sales tax on something because you're probably wrong, and second oxygen bars sound like an amazing scam.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8665257, member: 19857"] Are you sure? I'm not a lawyer but the complaint specifically seems to be about the oxygen sales, not any other paraphernalia. (That point 4 seems to be relevant in the list because the tax statute that is cited later assumes that anything that can be weighed and measured is taxable for the purpose of NC sales tax law). From the sound of it my suspicion is that Lanasa didn't believe he had to pay sales tax on the oxygen because he was just filling tanks with pumps and then charging for access so he wasn't "selling" anything "physical". Except that isn't how the law actually reads and oxygen is actually a commodity even if you're just filling tanks with air pumps in your back room and then reselling it. Two lessons to take away from this - first always check with a tax attorney if you are running a business and think that you don't need to charge sales tax on something because you're probably wrong, and second oxygen bars sound like an amazing scam. [/QUOTE]

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