[WSBARP] Consignment Shop Sales Reporting

[Paul Neumiller]

Client is an antique toy dealer and rents a space in an antique store.
Other parties include the other venders/tenants of spaces in the shop and
the shop owner.  Tenants pay a flat monthly rental amount plus 15% of a
sale.  Shop owner is contractually obligated to collect sales tax upon sale
of an item in the store and then pay the sales tax to WA DOR.  Problem is
that the shop owner has terrible accounting skills and systems (and a known
gambling problem) and flatly refuses to give venders/tenants copies of daily
sale receipts or cash register documents.  Written lease does not require
shop owner to provide the information. 

 

I have spoken to DOR and they said that they will only pursue the party who
is contractually obligated to collect and pay the sales tax (just in case it
gets gambled away.)  But, my client still wants to know the daily sales in
the shop, or at least, the client's daily sales.  Any creative ideas out
there?  Maybe an RCW or WAC requiring the shop owner to provide the
information in a consignment or similar situation?   

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