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The States Want A Website to Be Sufficient Presence for Taxes
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 07:37 AM EDT
We have a federal GST here in Canada and most provinces have their own
provincial tax. Several have now moved to a harmonized tax (HST). The post
office and couriers now collect tax on imports. The only hole now seems to be
the daily limits on trips across the border have gone up so people can still get
their gas and groceries on the other side.

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The States Want A Website to Be Sufficient Presence for Taxes
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 07:50 AM EDT

AFAIK, VAT is uniform at least across the country, if not the entire European Community.

In the United States, sales tax depends upon:
* The fire district;
* The school district;
* The water district;
* The city/town/village/township;
* The county;
* The state;
* And maybe some other taxation districts;

As a general rule of thumb, the state department of taxation manages to do an acceptable job, in providing businesses a chart showing how much tax to charge for each address. "Acceptable" meaning that roughly 99% of the addresses will be charged the correct amount of tax. That remaining 1% can cause problems for everybody. The usual way to remedy those problems, is for somebody to go to court.

The second issue that crops up, is when the goods/services are delivered to one address, but billed to a different address. For which address should the sales tax be charged? The physical address of where the website servers are located, as one pundit has suggested?

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