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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
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Date: 28 Aug 89 14:21:50 GMT
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What does this have to do with IBM PC's?  Ah, well.

In article <466@proton.UUCP> baumann@muon.UUCP (Michael Baumann) writes:
>In article <2982@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> crr@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (christopher.r.riley) writes:
>>The original artical was rather vague as to just who was going to be taxed.
>>The way it has been (at least for most people), is that if you buy something
>>via mail order from out of state, you don't pay that state's sales tax.  By
>>law you ARE supposed to, and have been supposed to for many years (this
>>from a law professor teaching contract law). 
>Oh this is just wonderful....
>This means that legally I can get 
>1)taxed TWICE for the same purchase.
>2)Get taxed without representation. 

Well I found an even stranger case.  Harry and David, a gift fruit mail order
company located here in Oregon (no sales tax) charges sales tax based on the
state(s) the gifts are delivered to, and then only a certain number.

This means that if you live in California, and order gift pears for friends
in Washington, Illinois, New York, and a box for yourself, you pay four
different sales taxes!  

On the other hand, if you decide to give your friends shirts from Norm
Thompson, another Oregon mail order company, you pay no tax (to them at least)
at all.

Living in Oregon, I would think twice about buying merchandise from Harry
and David to send to friends out of state!  (As an unusual twist, Oregon
residents can buy merchandise in Washington and not pay Washington sales tax
as long as the merchandise is intended for Oregon use -- appliances, not 
MacDonalds' food!).

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
Standard Disclaimers Apply
(We do get socked with a high income and property taxes, so don't feel
 too bad out there).