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If you're a registered business with a tax ID number, you can deduct sales taxes paid on business inputs (supply) on your income taxes, whether personal or busi

• asdfaoeu 6y ago
  Is that all states? That just sounds like VAT
  • Tagbert 6y ago
    It should apply in all states that HAVE a sales tax. Sales tax is only supposed to be applied to the end consumer sale. There are a lot of similarities between VAT and sales tax along with the differences.
  • rahimnathwani 6y ago
    The comment to which you replied said you can deduct sales taxes paid against income taxes. I think this means that paying $10 would reduce your income tax by $3 (if income tax is 30%). This is different from getting a 100% credit ($10) which is what you'd get with a VAT system.
    • gamblor956 6y ago
      No, you don't get a 100% credit for VAT against your income taxes; the credit only exists as an offset against your VAT payable liability. If for some reason you can't offset your input VAT, then you get the same deduction against your income as you would for a sales tax, because it's part of your expenses. BUT NOTE: that if the acquired good is depreciated, then in both cases (VAT or sales tax) the tax-related deduction is spread over several years rather than all at once.
      • rahimnathwani 6y ago
        Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you get a 100% credit against income taxes, only that you get a 100% credit. (The comment to which I replied seemed to think that GP's point - that sales tax can be deducted from income for income tax purposes - was equivalent to a credit for input VAT, which it's not.)
• gamblor956 6y ago
  You can in the sense that sales tax paid is part of the cost of acquiring the good resold. However, you can only deduct items so acquired for business purposes, not for personal purposes.
• megiddo 6y ago
  In Texas, you can deduct sales tax paid on non-taxable purchases from sales tax owed on taxable sales.