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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
...and between cities within the same state.
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WA
(I loved dealing with these nice folk. When I asked about a series of forms: You have Employees here? Tear them up
) and CA (my home state: Nasty to deal with) made that easy for shippers. They provided decent tables with the city (with a tax id code), county and rate.
Others left 'taxing jurisdiction' sleuthing to the Shipper.
(I once did not collect the city tax for a show's sales, because we were not in Maricopa County. The Taxman said I owed because the town crossed county lines into the adjacent county. ) Forget asking the customer for help
, some don't even know what jurisdiction they are in, let alone the rate (the tax forms DEMAND proper allocation
)
Other jurisdictions taxes (and rates) vary by commodity. CA does not tax some groceries. TIt axes a single Brownie, but NOT a sheet of Brownies.
Believe me, getting the Tax Code correct is hard work for even a single STORE Location, let alone, crossing jurisdictional lines.
I once was advised by someone (also a customer) who worked at AU customs, to try and keep shipments under x US$, as it was too much effort to collect (the same person advised to NOT under declare, as every shipment, fro now on, WILL be scrutinized once detected)
We need a simplified, Uniform Tax schedule (at least by country) and submission points, for collection to work. Can you imagine mailing out 1,000 (unique) tax forms and checks every month?