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Originally Posted by NatCh
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.
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You honestly think that it would be more complicated than the process of reclaiming taxes from a loose political union of 25 countries, each of which has its own entirely separate legal system, with almost as many languages as countries?
Somehow, the EU, with all that, allows you to reclaim the tax from things bought in any number of different countries (each with a different VAT rate!) at any point of exit from the EU that you choose to go through. I'm sure that the US could manage it if it really wanted to - don't you?
