POS for New York City convenience, grocery and liquor stores

New York's own 4% state rate is only the base. Inside New York City you also collect a 4.5% city rate and a 0.375% Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District surcharge, a charge that reaches New York City and a set of neighbouring downstate counties but not the rest of the state, for a combined 8.875% you ring on every taxable sale. That figure holds the same in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, so you are not chasing a different rate borough by borough, and it covers your hot case and fountain drinks too since the city does not add a separate meals tax on top. Storeveu holds that combined figure at the store level so you are never mixing a citywide number into an upstate catalog.

Yes. On top of the state's $5.35 per pack cigarette tax, New York City charges its own $1.50 per pack local excise, for $6.85 a pack before sales tax is even added, and the city portion is administered and stamped separately by the city's own Department of Finance. That means your stamping agent has to source and apply a New York City stamp in addition to the state one, something no other city in the state requires. Storeveu's scan data module is set up to keep that extra layer straight in your tobacco reporting.

The licence itself still comes from the state Liquor Authority, so that part does not change. What is different inside the city applies only to on-premises applications, like a bar, restaurant or tasting counter: those get routed through whichever of the city's 59 neighbourhood community boards covers the address, each with its own hearing calendar and notice process, and a statewide rule against new on-premises licences within 500 feet of three or more existing ones bites hardest in the city's dense commercial corridors. A store's base off-premise retail licence goes to the SLA without that board process; the review and 500-foot rule only kick in if the location also seeks an on-premises component. Storeveu keeps your licensed categories and date of birth prompts set per store, so a location still waiting on its board hearing is never rung as if it already holds one.

Yes, a 5 cent fee on paper carryout bags, and it needs its own line on the receipt. The city's own attempt to charge this fee in 2016 was blocked by the state before it ever took effect, so the fee actually running today only exists because New York City opted in under New York State's 2020 Bag Waste Reduction Act, starting in March 2020, not because of a city law that predates it. Storeveu rings that as its own itemised line so it is never lost inside the taxable subtotal.