The way it works in California is that the person holding the valid reseller permit (the merchant in most cases) is "...responsible for collecting...sales tax..."
A merchant may by all means NOT charge a customer a sales tax but is still liable to remit the tax on that transaction to the taxing authority, so in a sense the merchant selling can sometimes end up paying the tax.
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Originally Posted by Gusturd
I think you've gone off target. We're talking about sales tax. The person selling doesn't pay the sales tax, the person buying does.
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