Instructions filling out state,local and district sales and use tax return?

Question

I live in California and attempting to fill out the state,local and district sales and use tax return.

In box 1 it's asking for the total gross sales.

Should I include all sales or only sales that were made within California.

example: total sales = $100

out of the $100 only $20 were sold to customers living in Calif.

The other sales were sold to customers outside of Calif.

Do I report $20 in box 1 ? or $100

Answer 1

Gross sales is all sales of the business, 100.

Answer 2

You report gross sales on line 1. You can take a deduction for sales that were shipped to other states on line 8, "Sales in Interstate or Foreign Commerce". This line is on page 2 of the regular form and page 1 of the short form. That way you only pay taxes on the $20.

Remember to keep shipping documents to support your sales in interstate commerce.