Tax on ST/OT orders
We have a distribution center (DC) that sells to customers, distributers and transfers product to our branches. We do not pay sales tax when we purchase products because we purchase for resell and charge our customers tax at the time of the sale. When our branches consume the products that are transferred to them from the DC they don’t directly sell it to a customer, so we need to accrue tax to pay to the states somewhere in the process. We are currently capturing this at the time of the ST – we’re actually charging our branches sales tax on that order. On the