Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, I've always thought it a little amiss that visitors from the US can reclaim VAT from items that they buy in the EU, but no reciprocal arrangement exists to permit the reclaiming of sales tax in the US for EU visitors.
|
It's probably because it's kind of complicated over here. The sales taxes are charged/collected by the individual states, there isn't a national one, so there's no central place to even attempt such a recovery. Also our sales taxes tend to be rather lower than your VATs.
If we ever go to a
consumption tax rather than the income tax we have now (oh, 'tis fondly to be wished!), then I'd expect y'all to get the same recovery access that we do now. I'd think it would need to be a built-in requirement, actually.