Getting Resale Certificates
You are required to have resale certificates for any customer that makes a tax-exempt purchase. You are also required to keep them on file, in many cases for 4 years or more.
Most states advise that when a customer makes a purchase for resale, you should collect a resale certificate from them at the time of the purchase, or a “reasonable amount of time after”. Not every state defines how much time is “reasonable”, so consider having a resale certificate on file before you ship.
Download a blank certificate from the appropriate state below and present it to your customer when they place an order.
- Alabama here's more text!
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota (uses MTC certificate)
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico1
- New York
- North Carolina (uses MTC certificate)
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma2 (uses MTC certificate)
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virgin Islands
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
States that do not require a certificate
- Alaska
- Delaware
- Montana
- New Hampshire
- Oregon
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- New Mexico has a Gross Receipts Tax instead of a Sales Tax. Resellers need to use state’s Taxation and Revenue webservice to obtain a Nontaxable Transaction Certificate
- Oklahoma doesn’t have a resale certificate form, but requires either a copy of the purchaser’s sales tax permit OR the completed Multi-jurisdictional Uniform Sales & Use Tax Certificate
