Short-term consulting project: do I need to charge and pay sales-tax?

For the last two weeks, I have been working for a small company in New York City (Manhattan) doing some consulting work and am unsure as to whether I need to charge my client sales-tax for services rendered. If so, how do I find out who to remit payment to? Thirdly, would it be more commonplace to simply scale back the amount I am charging them to include the sales-tax in the daily rate we originally agreed-upon?|||No.





The city of new york taxes the following:





1. Most tangible personal property (i.e. alcohol, furniture, electronics, etc.);


2. Gas, electricity, refrigeration, steam, telephone, and telegraph services;


3. Detective, cleaning, and maintenance services;


4. Occupancy of hotel and motel rooms;


5. Food and beverages sold by restaurants and caterers;


6. Admission charges to places of amusement;


7. Receipts from beauty, barbering, hair restoring, manicures, pedicures, electrolysis, massage, and other, similar services;


8. Receipts from the sale of services by or use of facilities of weight control salons, health salons, gymnasiums, and similar establishments;


9. Sales of credit rating and credit reporting services;


10. Receipts from the sales of the service of parking, garaging, or storing motor vehicles;








So unless your service is one of the few listed above (like a cleaning or detective work... ) then you don't charge a sales tax... I'm assuming your doing some sort of business type consulting work... in which case your like a lawyer and don't charge a sales or use tax.