"When I got my check, I thought somethin' didn't look right. My receipts were for a little over a hundred dollars. Maybe $104 or $106 and change. But the check they gave me was only for $90-something. I got to looking at it, and they only paid me for the materials. Not for the sales tax! I guess I'm expected to eat that!"
"Oh. They probably have a tax-exempt account. Like when we used to go buy our local supplies for school. We had to get the tax-exempt card from the principal to take to Walmart. You probably needed at least the city's tax-exempt number to buy the stuff without being taxed."
"Maybe. Nobody told me that."
Here's the thing. Somebody is not communicating the procedures to Hick. Maybe it's 50-50, and he needs to make a list of questions to ask, so he knows what's expected. Or maybe somebody there is just trying to make it hard for Hick to do his new job.
Hick worked for 20 years in a factory, head of the maintenance department, buying machines and equipment, shipping them internationally, responsible for millions of dollars over those years. He was on safety committees, worked closely with local fire departments and police departments and city government. He did not, however, have to deal with tax-exempt accounts. I'd say many people in the private business sector are not aware of such minutia. In Hick's world, if he spends his own money to buy something for a "client," he will receive all his expenditures back by reimbursement.
Hick was yesterday-years-old when he learned about this topic.
IF that's what kept Hick from getting full reimbursement for his repair expenditures.
Hmmm. Not a surprise that Hick is not informed about the reimbursement process. They seem to not have told him a whole lot!
ReplyDeleteYes. Hick should have asked, I guess. It's not like anybody is going to stick their neck out to help him.
DeleteIt sounds to me like it's a tax-exempt issue don't you think?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I think, since they paid for the actual materials. I don't think anybody is so petty to deprive Hick of only the tax part of the reimbursement.
DeleteI didn't know about tax-exempt cards, but now thta you mentioned them, I remember stories in the newspapers about politicians and how they all had cards for whatever and now I'm guessing those are tax-exempt. Because they don't get paid enough (ha ha hahahaha) to manage with just their own funds.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about it, but public entities that get funding from tax dollars don't have to pay sales tax on items they buy in that locality. Those politicians were probably just supposed to use their cards for business purposes. If they got caught not doing that, maybe that's how they ended up in the paper, heh heh!
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