{"id":61,"date":"2016-02-10T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=61"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:11:53","slug":"in-hot-water-charging-sales-tax-when-selling-water-bottles-and-other-non-taxable-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/02\/10\/in-hot-water-charging-sales-tax-when-selling-water-bottles-and-other-non-taxable-items\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hot Water: Charging Sales Tax When Selling Water Bottles and Other Non-taxable Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Franchisees of an international coffee chain\u00a0were sued in New York and New Jersey for charging extra money\u2014in the form of sales\u2014for non-taxable food items such as water bottles and packaged coffee. LESSON: Check your state\u2019s sales tax guide, which may limit taxes on certain food items and drinks. WARNING: Failure to comply could land you in <em>hot water<\/em> defending against a consumer\u00a0class action lawsuit or a government investigation. HELP: If you are not in compliance, put together a strategy &#8211; include legal counsel to address all civil and criminal issues &#8211; to remedy this\u00a0situation.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/sheilarafterywiggins.html\">Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/a>, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/newark.html\">Newark office<\/a>, handles matters involving complex commercial disputes, insurance defense, coverage disputes, financial fraud, and attorney ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins Franchisees of an international coffee chain\u00a0were sued in New York and New Jersey for charging extra money\u2014in the form of sales\u2014for non-taxable food items such as water bottles and packaged coffee. LESSON: Check your state\u2019s sales tax guide, which may limit taxes on certain food items and drinks. WARNING: Failure to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/02\/10\/in-hot-water-charging-sales-tax-when-selling-water-bottles-and-other-non-taxable-items\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Hot Water: Charging Sales Tax When Selling Water Bottles and Other Non-taxable Items&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[170,24,175,177,168,172,169,41,174,167,146,176,173,8,171],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-charging","tag-compliance","tag-extra-money","tag-food-items","tag-franchisees","tag-help","tag-international-coffee-chain","tag-lesson","tag-money","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-non-taxable","tag-sales","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-warning"],"authors":[{"term_id":191,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}