On 11/23/2011 11:46 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:41:52 -0500, Kurt
wrote:

In ,
Ed wrote:


Aside from the fact that donuts will probably not be sold mailorder
often, how do the big stores do it now? They have stores in every
state, yet manage to do all of this already. Sure, it will be some
expense, but it is merely adapting existing software. Some Internet
sellers collect tax in multiple states already.

Because of the physical presence thing. They charge sales taxes
because of where they are. It is one place that doesn't have to ask if
the person they are selling to is in one of the weird districts. The
sales taxes for the Internet, at least as currently being discussed, are
not based on where one building is, but rather where the building they
are sending it to is. Whole other ball of wax.

Yes, an easier to handle ball of was. Now they will have 50 states to
deal with from one computer rather than the different ones in their
3000 local stores. The state for the shipping address with determine
the tax. Look up charts are easy.

Absolutely, there is nothing at all complicated. If you can quantify
something you can have a computer look up process that can use that
information.




Take a look at the withholding tax on your pay stub. Does every
employee where you work pay the same tax every week? No, the computer
looks at the gross pay and references a chart for the proper tax for
the number of exemptions. Many more possibilities doing payroll than
shipping to 50 states.

If you can make a simple spreadsheet, you can do the sales tax thing.