</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I thought he meant Tax for Till..... )</font>
(Hitting myself in head) Duh! Dumb me. Between staying up late and all these new danged floaters inside my eyes, I just ain't seein' very straight.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( We need a tiller first as well. I'll see what other models are there. The tiller is a kubota KUEB40C
Frostyford.)</font>
Say Frosty,
It says "Pacific Northwest" by one of these price quotes. Now if that "Till" = Tax, then I figure you must be from WA state, 'cause Oregon doesn't have sales tax. Oregon has income tax. WA has sales tax, but not income tax.
So, if you live in CA, ID, or WA, you can go to a dealer in OR, buy tractor, attachments, etc., with CASH, haul them back across the state line YOURSELF, and nobody specifically asks you to pay sales tax. Now there are those very conscientously minded people who write to the state govt. and ask for little forms because they really want to pay extra taxes.
If, however, you get Kubota to finance any of these purchases for you in the state of OR, Kubota is going to notify your home state about this purchase and they are gonna' send you a little invitation to pay extra taxes.
Now this topic has been hotly debated here a number of times. There are those who will go to any length to avoid taxes as long as they know nobody's gonna come lock 'em up. There are also straight arrows who are gonna' do nothin' they think might be even remotely wrong.
The thing is, this is one of those "grey areas". Interstate commerce is supposed to be free of interference by states. Shoot, I go to Oregon on vacation every year or so and buy lots'a clothes at an outlet mall on the way back. I don't pay taxes on the stuff and nobody in CA ever asks me to pay it once I'm back. I buy stuff from other states all the time over the web and don't pay taxes unless the retailer happens to have one of it's locations in CA. Yet on these big ticket items, states want to get their already sticky hands on more dough if possible. Now I know several guys who've driven from CA or WA to OR, bought tractors with cash, hauled them right back through those ag inspection stations for the whole world to see, gotten back and posted it here for the whole world to read about, and have never been pestered about taxes. BUT, iffin' you go to OR and finance through 'Bota, 'Bota's gonna' write the tax people in your home state so they know thay can write and ask you for some goodies.
So, what if financing is absolutely necessary? Well, how about an equity loan on your property? Maybe pay cash for tractor only, but buy attachments with financing, on separate invoice. Maybe other ways to avoid your home state getting any special tattletale papers.
Please understand, I am NOT trying to tell you what you oughta' do. There's lots'a things I feel are right and wrong. When states play games wildly and are inconsistent about whom they target though, I really do feel that some things surely qualify as "grey areas." You gotta' make your own decision and be able to believe it was an o.k. thing to do. Your call. Good luck.
