On 11/24/2011 6:52 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
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Ed wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:12:13 -0600, "
wrote:




A friend lived in one town but had an address for the city next to it. I
lived a couple of blocks closer to the city (same subdivision) but had a town
address. The tax rates were substantially different. How does your simple
model handle this?


Simple. They don't care what the town address is. They are
collecting STATE sales tax, not city or down or other districts. The
city is SOL
I would have no problem if all we are talking is the state sales
taxes. But all of the other jurisdictions are demanding their cut, too
and therein lies the rub.


So whats the difference? The unfairness is that brick and mortar
businesses are mandated to be tax collectors. If you buy something from
them they are mandated to collect whatever taxes are applicable. So if
the state is say 5%, and the county is 2% the merchant must collect 7%.
Why should another merchant no need to do that?