Improper Sales Tax Charges

Walmart Excessive Sales Tax Pennsylvania Settlement

Walmart is settling a class action alleging that when customers bought items with coupons, it charged them sales tax on the original price of the item rather than on the price they actually paid for it. The complaint claims that Pennsylvania state law requires retailer to deduct the value of the coupons before calculating sales  Read more

Dell Computer North Carolina Sales Tax Settlement

This settlement resolves a class action against Dell, Inc., Dell Marketing Limited Partnership, Dell Catalog Sales Limited Partnership, BancTec, Inc., and QualxServ, LLC. The class action claimed that customers were improperly charged sales tax or use tax on optional maintenance agreements, in violation of North Carolina laws. The case was referred to binding arbitration, which  Read more

GoPro Excessive Sales Tax Collection Florida Class Action

When plaintiff Luis Cabassa traded in his old GoPro camera for a discount on a new one, he expected to be charged sales tax only on the amount of the sale—that is, the amount he was paying for the new device. Instead, the complaint for this class action alleges, GoPro charged him sales tax on  Read more

Forever 21 New York State Unlawful Sale Tax on Clothing and Footwear Class Action

The complaint for this class action alleges that retailer Forever 21 charged customers sales taxes on clothing that should have been exempt from it based on the purchaser’s send-to address. Plaintiff Laura Togut claims that she bought about twenty items of clothing from Forever 21’s website, with each item priced below $110, for a total  Read more