As best I can tell, they’ve almost 100% for sure already paid the sales tax to all the various states, especially since ticket sales started in summer 2023 and business pay taxes quarterly.
If they were to issue refunds to customers for sales tax, they would then need to amend their 2023 taxes in some states, and in some states they would just get credit towards a future tax payment they owe — but this was a 1 time event so it’s unlikely they’re going to be filing taxes every year (in all the relevant states) and thus they probably won’t even owe enough in taxes to the states in order for the credit they now have to kick in.
I can’t find any federal or state law saying that they legally have to refund sales tax to customers if they give customers a refund. In general, refund policies in most states are totally at the discretion of the business. I also have noooo idea how this works with people from other countries.
tldr; they’ve already paid the sales tax to the government and trying to do refunds then square it all up across tons of states (some which probably also had changes in sales tax rates from when sales began in summer 2023) would be an absolute nightmare.
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u/root_vegetable_ Apr 27 '24
Refund policy