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[favoritecyn]

I'm looking to purchase a new truck camper in Indiana and drive back to CA where I live. According to the Indiana dealership, I don't pay Indiana sales taxes or CA sales taxes to the dealership. I thought that was off. I googled a little and found that CA is a non-reciprocal state to Indiana so I should pay Indiana's sales tax of 7% to the dealership. But, do I still have to CA tax as well? I am having a hard time finding any other CA state official guidelines, laws etc. I know I don't have register or title it in CA. Any thoughts are appreciated. 

[michelle_east_county]

I'm looking to purchase a new truck camper in Indiana and drive back to CA where I live. According to the Indiana dealership, I don't pay Indiana sales taxes or CA sales taxes to the dealership. I thought that was off. I googled a little and found that CA is a non-reciprocal state to Indiana so I should pay Indiana's sales tax of 7% to the dealership. But, do I still have to CA tax as well? I am having a hard time finding any other CA state official guidelines, laws etc. I know I don't have register or title it in CA. Any thoughts are appreciated.

California wants sales tax on anything purchased out of state if other state tax not already paid up to the amount of California tax plus local taxes (city and/or county). You can pay the remainder when registering camper (see above posting re how that works) if you had to do so for insurance or loan purposes. If that doesn't apply to you (it didn't to us with GEICO) you're supposed to report and pay the remainder on your state income taxes. I thought about not doing so, but one does sign tax forms swearing the above is true, etc, and figured they might somehow track such a purchase via insurance coverage. As we bought a camper in Colorado and no sales tax was collected for out of state resident purchases, we owed the full California sales tax amount. I imagine Colorado will eventually collect from others in future as they're now leaving revenue on the table.

[favoritecyn]

California wants sales tax on anything purchased out of state if other state tax not already paid up to the amount of California tax plus local taxes (city and/or county). You can pay the remainder when registering camper (see above posting re how that works) if you had to do so for insurance or loan purposes. If that doesn't apply to you (it didn't to us with GEICO) you're supposed to report and pay the remainder on your state income taxes. I thought about not doing so, but one does sign tax forms swearing the above is true, etc, and figured they might somehow track such a purchase via insurance coverage. As we bought a camper in Colorado and no sales tax was collected for out of state resident purchases, we owed the full California sales tax amount. I imagine Colorado will eventually collect from others in future as they're now leaving revenue on the table.

Interesting! Thank you for replying.