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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but you've slightly lost me. Retailers who have a presence in a state have to charge sales tax. True? Plainly, that being the case, the task of deciding the correct rate of sales tax to charge based on the customer's location, is not an insurmountable one, because innumerable retailers do precisely this.
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Software is available to take account of different rates of sales tax by state, city and county and different rules for what is taxable. The EU has only 28 sets of rates and NZ only one.
But of course before Amazon (say) opens a warehouse in a state they check these matters and consider the costs.