Buying and Replacing Joey to Save Monthly Fee
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Yeah, I thought of that. This is January, and the county usually makes changes to the tax rate in January and July. On the other hand, when I moved this account to Ohio back in October, I immediately noticed that the sales tax for this account with Flex Pack at $29.99 ($34.99 - $5.00 autopay discount) was significantly higher than the sales tax on my other Dish account in the same county, which also had $29.99 in programming and services ($19.99 Welcome Pack + $10.00 DVR fee). The sales tax on this month's bill is now closer to what it used to be on the other account (I have since closed the Welcome Pack account.) which leads me to believe that the reduction is more likely due to Dish correcting a mistake with the sales tax on the Flex Pack account.
Yea but then I would have to live in Indy, Detroit or Wheeling WV. I'm OK living in Columbus Ohio with a good job.
I'm originally from WV. I'll take paying "Satellite Tax" any day then living there.
Plus who says those states or cities won't eventually have their own "Satellite Tax" one day.
Seems to me that you would be avoiding the tax illegally, you still lease the equipment in the state that is levying the tax. You might be fooling Dish but I bet that the state of Ohio believes you still owe the tax. Kind of like when you "avoid" sales tax buying on the Internet, in most states you still legally owe the sales tax, it is just that the vendor no longer collects and you are legally obligated to pay it.
Dish could charge the tax based on billing address instead of service address, if the state required Dish to do so. However, with paperless billing, it is just as easy to "move" the billing address out of the state if necessary. My point was that the state of Ohio would have no way of knowing where I was physically located at any given time, or whether I should have been paying the tax or not.
I live and work in Columbus Ohio. That is also where my service is. No "Moving" here.
Good grief. Let’s not get into the legalities of “moving” for purposes of avoiding tax or getting out of market locals again, please!
I wasn’t talking about physically moving....
My ISP routinely shows my location in Chicago even though I’m on the MO/KS state line in Missouri. So I think the location feeding DA shouldn’t be an issue for Dish, although it is for MLB. I have tons of issues streaming baseball games in the summer because it looks like I’m in Chicago. So could Dish get uppity about it? Sure. I would hope they wouldn’t, because it’s not my fault the ISP does that.
PS- this would apply to people who use VPN’s as well
I should have realized that. I'm not here much. I had to do research on "Moving"
So face palm and all that.
I've posted this a million times, but some states have a leased receiver tax (mine does). So if you care about saving $2 per month, then that is one advantage of owning. Not wanting to debate the merits of owning vs. leasing here; just stating a fact.
It’s the state sales tax based on $7
So your talking $.36 if your state sales tax rate was 6%
In the zip code I am currently “moved” to, it’s $1.54 per month on my $15 Hopper 3 lease. Doubt the tax rate is 15.4%, so I think you might be incorrect.
I’m going to email the Department of Revenue tomorrow to find out how they figure the “leased equipment tax.”
Just a wild guess, but I am thinking the tax is on your entire bill (including programming) if you happen to have any leased equipment.
They can’t tax programming in this state- that would be a satellite tax, which we most definitely do not have. Only the portion of the bill which is “leased equipment” is taxable. I think I might be uncovering a scam here....
