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? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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