fisheater
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Owe the sales tax to who?
If I buy a product from a retailer in NY then I don't pay any sales tax to the state of CA because the sale didn't originate here.
If I was required to pay sales tax to NY they would have collected the tax with the sale. If I sell one of my products out of state I do not collect sales tax because the item was shipped out of CA.
I know this because I have to send the board of equalization sales tax that I collect every year. One of the exemptions is out of state sales. It's the same for other states.
Retailers in other states are not going to collect sales tax for California.
Actually, us Californians are supposed to pay a "use tax" on retail purchases we make from out-of-state retailers. Virtually never happens, though.
http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub79b.pdf