BobR wrote:

I am convinced that YOU are incapable of solving this very simple
problem that just because you are stupid doesn't mean that everyone
else is. Hell, this isn't even a very difficult problem with the
information that is easily available to anyone with an honest desire
to find it and use it. Most internet companies just simply don't want
to bother, they have an advantage and they want to keep it. Well ****
THEM and you to

This is not a "very simple" problem. Getting the exact sales tax
percent for the delivery address is not in any database I know of. Even
if the data was readily available, there is no current way of
implementing it with off-the-shelf 'shopping cart' software. If the
software could do it by a database lookup (would have to be zip+4),
that's only one hurdle overcome.

How does the small-time merchant get the tax monies to the state it was
collected for? Are we expected to get sales/use certificates in every
damn state? Do they expect that 'we' small merchants file a quarterly
return in every state? I have a hard enough time doing it for the feds
and Texas every 3 months, there is no way in hell I could do that x50.

It may be just the "big" guys now like Amazon, but they will eventually
try to get all the tax revenue they can. I'm not going to do that unless
they make it 2-click easy (and free).

The way it stands now, it would actually be illegal for me to collect
tax in any state besides my home state. I have one sales/use tax permit,
and its only valid in Texas. If I collected sales tax without a permit
I could go to prison for interstate fraud/theft. If I don't charge tax,
they can do nothing to me or my business. (as it stands today)









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