On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:09:39 -0500, Peter wrote:

On 11/23/2011 11:12 AM, zzzzzzzzzz 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?


Are you talking about sales tax rate or school/real estate tax rate?

Sales tax. I don't think Amazon is being asked to collect real estate tax.
;-)

I'm very familiar with the latter, the former is less common.

Usually when you live in one town but have an address for the city next
to it, the town has a different zip code than the city. (That's my
circumstance as well.) It is very rare for cities large enough to
impose a sales tax to have the same zip codes as communities outside
that city's legal boundary.

He lived in a town outside the city but had a city address (and, of course,
zip code). His sales tax *should* have been charged at the town rate,
regardless of his city street address. It was very difficult to get that
through to anyone, though.

I actually lived between him and the city, in the same subdivision, yet had a
town address (and zip code, obviously). There is no rationalizing the way the
USPS works.

My mother's house, in a different state, also has a different postal
address city/town/village than what is recorded on the property deed,
and a different zip code. Neither jurisdiction is large enough to have
imposed their own sales tax. They do have different school taxes.

Different issues. BTW, it doesn't take a "large city" to have a different
sales tax rate. It can even vary within a municipal entity.