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OT Amazon to begin charging state sales tax
Han wrote in
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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.
Doesn't zip+4 get you down to the street, rather than an area
somewhere with 100's of streets? That should get you into a database
with salestax rates.
Googling "how do i find the sales tax for a given address" gives lots of
info
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Best regards
Han
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