<p>Do we need to pay the sales tax for used books at UCLA Bookstore?</p>
<p>this is an interesting questions (since it’s used you would imagine that sales tax has already been paid once) but i would imagine that since it’s a second transaction, state tax would have to be paid once again. (although you can solve this pretty easily by just going to the book store and asking them.)</p>
<p>You are so right about it! I did call UCLA store, they said “absolutely!”</p>
<p>Taxes are meant to be collected on any transaction. Hell, legally, you are supposed to give tax revenue to the government for a yard sale.</p>
<p>Of course there’s sales tax on used books. California is the land of taxes.</p>
<p>half and amazon don’t charge taxes ;)</p>
<p>^^^ Half/Amazon don’t have to charge taxes (for the moment) in states where they don’t have a physical brick and mortar presence (they do charge taxes for items shipped to a few states though). This leaves the taxes up to the consumer, in which few actually do pay a use tax to the government.</p>