<p>Virginia Tax Commissioner Rules Office Furnishings Retailer Not Permitted to Approve Customer's Exemption Certificate</p>

Virginia Tax Commissioner Rules Office Furnishings Retailer Not Permitted to Approve Customer's Exemption Certificate

The Virginia tax commissioner upheld retail sales and use tax assessments on an office furnishings retailer, finding the taxpayer should have denied its customer's request for exemption for the untaxed sales in dispute and charged the customer the sales tax at the appropriate rate because it was not permitted to approve an exemption certificate.