On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:27:41 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:33:00 -0600, G. Morgan
wrote:

Kurt Ullman wrote:

In article ,
Ed Pawlowski 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.

Exactly.

BS. It is done already by many retailers that have catalog operations.
Sears, Monkey Ward, etc. .

They ship to stores. Those purchases shipped to homes have the same
intractable problem and people are constantly being over/under charged. Half
object but no one cares.