White House Custom Colour has sales tax nexus in four states: California, Illinois, Minnesota and Texas. This requires us to collect sales tax on orders that are shipped to those states. All four states define the taxable point of the transaction for orders shipped by UPS to be the location UPS delivers the order. We will calculate the required sales tax for the specific ship to address on each order submitted.
The location of your studio or business is only relevant to the sales tax calculation if it is also the ship to address for the order. If we don't have an exemption certificate for the ship to state on file for your account and an order is shipped to California, Illinois, Minnesota or Texas, then regardless of your studio location sales tax needs to be collected.
If your order is for resale you can send us the resale certificates with your sales tax ID or permit numbers for the applicable states and we will not charge sales tax on all orders for your account shipped to the states for which we have exemption certificates on file. You are then responsible for collecting or paying the needed sales or use tax regarding those orders. Please contact an accountant or attorney if you have any questions about your eligibility for sales tax exemption. We've included a list of the relevant tax publications regarding "drop shipping" for each of the four states at the bottom of this page.
We need a valid resale certificate for each state that your business is registered in and we will then not collect sales tax on orders shipped to those states.
Please return your completed and signed forms to any of the following:
We've collected some links below to the relevant tax publications that discuss how sales tax regarding orders "drop shipping" is handled when an order is shipped directly from a vendor with nexus to an end-user in that state.
All shipments to the Canadian provinces are done with WHCC as the importer of the product. This means we must collect GST or HST on your invoice based on the value of the products ordered. The exact GST or HST amount will vary depending on the province the products are being shipped to. Shipments will be delivered to the recipient with no taxes or fees due on delivery. For all the details on having WHCC products shipped to Canada, visit our Shipping Options page.
Your email confirmation will have "TBD" listed for sales tax if we cannot validate your ship to address correctly. If any additional verification of the address is needed we will contact you.