@MiniatureCrush, you have to register for exempt status – and as detailed, it’s all or nothing for each account.

Email Amazon about the product(s) you would like to buy and explain that they are wrongly charging sales tax. Be sure to include a link to your MN state website showing that those product(s) indeed are tax exempt for you to purchase.

I bought spices on Amazon a few years ago and was charged sales tax. Spices are tax exempt in New York. I emailed Amazon and got a fast reply, “You live in New York, you pay tax!” I emailed them back a link to the state government’s website clearly stating spices are tax exempt, and Amazon refunded the tax I had paid.

Each state specifies probably hundreds of items on which sales tax is not to be charged. I simply can’t see these mega-companies that will be dealing with 50 states being able to keep up with it.

I have a small business in New York, filing an annual return which has a place where non-exempt purchases (that should have been taxed but were not) can be input. Actually I prefer to do this, because it accomplishes more than one thing for me. It documents that I am paying use tax and the actual amount on items that were purchased tax-free but on which use tax is owed. (Rather than fooling around with blanks on a personal return they started including a few years ago.) I keep receipts for those items with copies of tax filings.

In addition to those purchases, I include use tax for any items that have been removed from inventory for personal use – often purchased in previous years, and I finally decided to resell rather than keep them. I keep a list of these items with copies of tax filings.