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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
Message-ID: <3489@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 89 09:29:09 GMT
References: <781@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
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From article <781@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>, by gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett):
> What really baffles me are the companies which ask for the tax ONLY if
> I am from some particular state, maybe three or four out of the
> possible 50.  And the list seems to differ with each mail-order
> company.  Beats me how they determine who owes what.

Until recently, law (I don't know whether it's federal law or uniform
state codes) required a mail-order company to collect sales tax on
orders shipped to states in which the company had business locations.

So if you order from a company with business locations in Michigan and
Ohio, you pay them Michigan tax if you live in Michigan, and Ohio tax
if you live in Ohio, and if you live anywhere else your state may try
to collect use tax from you.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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Holmdel, NJ 07733	att!hounx!marty1 or marty1@hounx.ATT.COM

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