[thelist] E-commerce: Sales Tax lookup service
Brian W. Reaves
brian at brianreaves.com
Wed Dec 3 14:20:18 CST 2003
If you use Amazon or Wal-Mart online and make a purchase you may have
noticed you pay sales tax for every transaction. As mentioned below
about location, Wal-Mart probably has a store in your state, thus they
are supposed to charge tax. Amazon, unfortunately, feels the need to
charge tax even if they don't have a store in your state.
<snip>
Joshua Olson wrote:
> Barrett,
>
> There are a couple things that will help with this:
>
> 1. Make sure you are clear on the need to collect taxes. The basic rule is
> that you need to collect taxes only for orders that are picked up or
> delivered to a state where you have a business or business-front that is
> required to collect taxes.
>
> So, if you have only one store-front in Georgia, but are shipping to New
> Mexico, the sale is tax free.
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