[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

Ok let me go again and try to be clear.

Current Texas law is... Bars do NOT pay sales tax on alcohol. Period. They pay a flat 14% TABC tax on anything with alcohol in it. Beer, Wine, booze. This is only for mixed beverage bars. Beer and Wine only places only pay whatever regular city/state sales tax ends up being... they may as well be selling sno cones so let's ignore them.

Starting January 1st. The law goes screwy. The flat TABC tax goes to 6.7% BUT you also have to collect 8.25% "sales tax" of course it really isn't sales tax because it still goes directly to TABC and still applies across the board to all alcohol. So basically they just popped every bar for an additional .95% in tax. BUT they give you an out by letting the bar pass the 8.25% to the customers just like regular businesses do.

The problem is that you can't do that easily on cash purchases but you can on credit cards.

First: fuck those assholes at TABC. Idiotic, entrapping bureaucrats.

Second: You cannot possibly believe that the current 14% tax is not factored into your alcohol sales and passed onto the customer already?

Third: I do not see the problem with the cash transactions. The computers can easily add that on for cash as they can credit cards. Unless I am still missing something here?