Best Places to Shop In Seattle Area for Canucks?

"Pat" wrote in message
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South of Seattle in Portland there is no sales tax.

In Washington state, if you can show you're from out of state, you don't
have to pay the sales tax. In fact, if I mail a present from the store to an
out-of-state address, I don't have to pay sales tax.

The best place I know for electronics in Fry's, whose Seattle store is in
Renton, just south of Seattle. Here's their web site: www.frys.com. The best
place I know for fashion would be Nordstrom in downtown Seattle. They also
have a discount store, The Rack, downtown. And many mall locations.

Disclaimer: I don't know how the US prices compare with Canadian prices.

Marianne

Where can one get the official info, regarding out of state residents NOT
HAVING TO PAY THE SALES TAX?

I was unable to find this on the website for washington state.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:31:14 -0700, "Mimi" wrote:
"Pat" wrote in message
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South of Seattle in Portland there is no sales tax.

In Washington state, if you can show you're from out of state, you don't
have to pay the sales tax. In fact, if I mail a present from the store to an
out-of-state address, I don't have to pay sales tax.

The best place I know for electronics in Fry's, whose Seattle store is in
Renton, just south of Seattle. Here's their web site: www.frys.com. The best
place I know for fashion would be Nordstrom in downtown Seattle. They also
have a discount store, The Rack, downtown. And many mall locations.

Disclaimer: I don't know how the US prices compare with Canadian prices.

Marianne

"JudgeLynch" wrote in message
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Where can one get the official info, regarding out of state residents NOT
HAVING TO PAY THE SALES TAX?

I was unable to find this on the website for washington state.

http://dor.wa.gov/docs/rules/eta/2014.pdf

I guess if your from BC they found some way to close this to the people of
BC. Thank your local greedy government, as they will still get your GST/PST
at the border. I know I have used it as a Alberta resident. Quite nice
actually.

Montana does not have a sales tax, neither does Oregon, and some others.
Have a nice drive down the coast. Or Whitefish and Kalispell are good
places to visit. Chilli days is a hoot. Booze is dirt cheap in Montana.
Do a weekend where we head into a town we know where the store sells booze
cheap, rent a cabin and drink t'il we drop. Order in some pizzas. Sober
up, and go shopping. A hoot.

And fill up before you go home. And enter on a dry tank.

Take a look at amazon.com and amazon.ca. Another retailer into the last
century with a 42% extra mark-up for Canadians. To add insult, you have to
pay 42% more GST/PST.

There is no info because you MUST pay sales tax. Canada is the
exception.

"JudgeLynch" wrote in message
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: Where can one get the official info, regarding out of state residents
NOT
: HAVING TO PAY THE SALES TAX?

My son lives in Oregon and if he shops here he shows his Oregon
driver's license and is not charged sales tax. Occasionally he has
had to pick up some general office supplies when he's up here on
business, etc., and againthey don;t chargehim sales tax

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:25:39 GMT, JudgeLynch
wrote:

Where can one get the official info, regarding out of state residents NOT
HAVING TO PAY THE SALES TAX?

I was unable to find this on the website for washington state.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:31:14 -0700, "Mimi" wrote:
"Pat" wrote in message
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snip

South of Seattle in Portland there is no sales tax.

In Washington state, if you can show you're from out of state, you don't
have to pay the sales tax. In fact, if I mail a present from the store to an
out-of-state address, I don't have to pay sales tax.

The best place I know for electronics in Fry's, whose Seattle store is in
Renton, just south of Seattle. Here's their web site: www.frys.com. The best
place I know for fashion would be Nordstrom in downtown Seattle. They also
have a discount store, The Rack, downtown. And many mall locations.

Disclaimer: I don't know how the US prices compare with Canadian prices.

Marianne

Where is "here"?

"Carole Allen" wrote in message
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: My son lives in Oregon and if he shops here he shows his Oregon
: driver's license and is not charged sales tax. Occasionally he has
: had to pick up some general office supplies when he's up here on
: business, etc., and againthey don;t chargehim sales tax

Seattle
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:47:51 GMT, "Serious" wrote:

Where is "here"?

"Carole Allen" wrote in message
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: My son lives in Oregon and if he shops here he shows his Oregon
: driver's license and is not charged sales tax. Occasionally he has
: had to pick up some general office supplies when he's up here on
: business, etc., and againthey don;t chargehim sales tax

Carole Allen wrote:
Seattle
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:47:51 GMT, "Serious"
wrote:

Where is "here"?

"Carole Allen" wrote in message
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My son lives in Oregon and if he shops here he shows his Oregon
driver's license and is not charged sales tax. Occasionally he has
had to pick up some general office supplies when he's up here on
business, etc., and againthey don;t chargehim sales tax

That's not legal:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=458-20-193

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Where can one get the official info, regarding out of state residents NOT
HAVING TO PAY THE SALES TAX?

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:09:16 GMT, "Serious" wrote:

That's not legal:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=458-20-193


Sure it is, didn't you read the entire thing?

(b) RCW 82.08.0273 provides an exemption from the retail sales tax to
certain nonresidents of Washington for purchases of tangible personal
property for use outside this state when the nonresident purchaser
provides proper documentation to the seller. This statutory exemption
is available only to residents of states and possessions or Province
of Canada other than Washington when the jurisdiction does not impose
a retail sales tax of three percent or more. These sales are subject
to B&O tax.

He doesn't come to shop in Washington specifically, since he can buy
these things in his home state of Oregon, tax-free. So on occasion
when visiting he needs to pick up a shirt, or some pens, or socks, or
something he will ultimately be taking back to Oregon with him to use,
and he shows his OR license and they don't charge him the sales tax.
He's not buying big-ticket items like electronics or tires.