Is this use tax only for NY residents or do residents of other states have these rules also?
I know some very ehricheh people who will buy something at a store in NY and ask the store to ship it to them (in NJ) so that they don’t have to pay sales tax. As I understand it, the buyer pays shipping instead of sales tax which comes out to be a lot less and the store doesn’t have to pay the government taxes for that purchase because it was an interstate purchase. According to this thread, this seems to be wrong.