Han wrote:

G. Morgan wrote in
:

We don't have a state income tax in TX, but you can *deduct* itemized
sales tax paid from your federal return (or take the default amount).


I know, but we are talking about charging sales tax by (little) companies.
When the immunity from charging salestax to an out of state customer is
lifted, the companies (big or little) will need to know how much to charge
to Joe Bloe in East Overshoes in some other state, plus which agency to
remit that to. I was saying that a national database relying on zip+4
could probably do that fairly easily, and I'd say that most states would be
willing to fund that database.

What about getting a permit in every state? No one has answered that
yet.

This is something that has to have a Federal component or I don't see
how else it would work. I'm not sending out 46 checks every 3 months,
they will have to implement a nationwide clearinghouse that disperses
the funds to the states. Sales tax is something you don't want to fall
behind on, or make mistakes. I could not imagine having to file
quarterly in every state that has sales tax. That would almost be a
full time job in itself.

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