ST-810-
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(2/07)
New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
ST-810
Instructions for Form ST-810
New York State and Local Quarterly
Quarterly
Sales and Use Tax Return
for Part-Quarterly Filers
Instructions
For tax period:
December 1, 2006, through February 28, 2007
• You must claim any outstanding unclaimed vendor collection credit amount from Form TR-912, Notice of Unclaimed New
York State Sales Tax Vendor Collection Credit, on the return for the period ending February 28, 2007. This is the final
period for which these notices are valid. After March 20, 2007, the notices are considered void and of no value and you will
no longer be entitled to claim the credit amount listed on the notice. See TSB-M-06(12)S, Summary of the 2006 Budget
Legislation Relating to Sales Taxes, for more information.
• Effective December 1, 2006, the local tax on motor fuel and diesel motor fuel sold as qualified fuel in Orange County and
Schenectady County is no longer computed on a cents-per-gallon basis and will instead be computed using a percentage
rate method. See Publication 718-F, Local Sales and Use Tax Rates on Qualified Motor Fuel, Diesel Motor Fuel, and B20
Biodiesel, for more information.
• The Tax Department has issued new Publication 851, A Guide to Sales Tax in New York State for Veterinarians. This
publication is available on the department’s Web site,
• Third party designee — You can authorize another person to discuss this tax return with the Tax Department by completing
the Third party designee section on Form ST-810. For more information see Third party designee on page 4.
• Important reminder to file all pages of your sales tax returns: Please include all pages of all the forms you completed
when you file with the Tax Department, even if you did not make entries on some of the pages.
The New York State Tax Department is dedicated to answering your questions. Please call our Sales Tax Information Center
for assistance. You may also visit our Web site for updated tax news, downloadable forms, links to related sites, and other
information (see Need Help? on page 4).
Quarterly filing: If you are presently required to file part-quarterly
Please read this
(monthly) returns and
section before
•
your total taxable receipts, purchases subject to tax, rents, and
amusement charges amounted to less than $300,000 in every one of
completing your return.
the last four quarters, or
•
you are a distributor as defined under Article 12-A selling motor fuel
Filing requirements
or diesel motor fuel, and you sold less than 100,000 gallons in every
one of the last four quarters,
Monthly filing: If your combined total of taxable receipts, purchases
you may request conversion to quarterly filing.
subject to tax, rents, and amusement charges is $300,000 or more
in a quarter, or if you are a distributor as defined under Article 12-A
To change your filing period, contact the Sales Tax Information Center;
and you have sold a total of 100,000 gallons or more of motor fuel or
see Need help? on page 4. If you fail to file a return on time, you may be
diesel motor fuel (taxable or nontaxable), you must file monthly returns
subject to penalty and interest charges.
beginning with the first month of the next sales tax quarter. You must
then continue to file monthly returns until you no longer meet the above
Preaddressed labels
conditions for four consecutive quarters. Call the Sales Tax Information
Place the enclosed peel-and-stick preaddressed label in the
Center immediately to change to monthly filing status and to obtain the
appropriate section on the front of the return. If you are filing single
necessary forms (see Need Help? on page 4).
pages (e.g., printed from Web site), please also enter your sales tax
Importers and others registered under Article 12‑A as distributors
identification number at the top of each page where space is provided.
of motor fuel or diesel motor fuel: Do not include on this return
Be sure to include your identification number and name on the front of
(Form ST-810), or on the part-quarterly returns (Form ST-809),
any schedules you may be required to file, and if filing single pages also
any amounts reported on Form FT-945/1045, Report of Sales Tax
enter your sales tax identification number at the top of each page where
Prepayment on Motor Fuel/Diesel Motor Fuel.
space is provided.