That's Illegal I'm calling the COPS !!!!!!!!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I work in NC and if the customer uses cpns with an EBT cd they do end up paying the tax. Most of them know this and are fine with it.

The amount paid for with EBT will have no tax. Coupons are taxable, so whatever the value of the coupon is the customer pays sales tax for.

[Lovecats]

The amount paid for with EBT will have no tax. Coupons are taxable, so whatever the value of the coupon is the customer pays sales tax for.

I've been fighting a cold for the past two days and I think that's what I meant . Of course, the way I've been feeling, who knows?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I've been fighting a cold for the past two days and I think that's what I meant . Of course, the way I've been feeling, who knows?

Try hot tea w/honey and lemon (I also hear ginger root is good for a cold.)


But I have to agree: pitching a fit over paying one penny is pretty petty.

[Moosenogger]

What I wish you could say in that situation: "Well, I and the rest of the tax payers are footing the bill for the rest, so I think asking you to pay one damn cent is pretty fair."

Now then, you explaining the rules nicely to her was probably the better avenue. Not as fun, though.

[Android Kaeli]

I got a couple of coupons in the mail a month or two ago for some free stuff, I still had to pay taxes on it. And it was well over the cent this lady had to pay, she could've swapped her tax for mine.

[Andara Bledin]

The way coupons and taxes work is that the coupons, if they are not for free items, function like instant rebates (which is why they come off after the charge rather than changing the price of the item), and taxes are applied to the full price. Free items are also tax-free.

I think the way coupons and EBT work is honestly kind of lame, but there's no excuse getting mad at a clerk for the way the lawmakers have set up the system.

^-.-^

[cashierbex]

I know this sale. Its annoying.

The coupon acts like a manufacture's coupon, but really isn't. The EBTs usually takes off tax except in that particular coupon. Me being nice, I just let it go cause I know I have enough to cover the change (people leave anything from $.01-$1 and not care. After the dollar mark, forget it.)

[Leffy]

In GA, you do have to pay the tax on coupons, equating the tax on the "cash value" of the coupon itself. Because the coupon's tax value is typically $0.001, give or take a few tenths or hundredths of a cent, this is typically a penny per coupon, since tax rounds to the nearest cent. The cash value is an amount the store itself is reimbursed on top of what it may or may not have lost with the discounting of the item, so it is NOT covered under the food stamp tax exempt, because it is not food stuffs as legally defined. And the reimbursement itself is legally taxable, so you have to pay it.