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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Info on Outlet Stores Wanted
Message-ID: <1505@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 17:52:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 17:52:43 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 06:51:08 EDT
References: <382@mit-bug.UUCP> <800@hou2d.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc. (CAE Systems Division), Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <800@hou2d.UUCP> cl1667@hou2d.UUCP (C.LUZE) writes:
>Finally, High Point, NC is THE best place for furniture.  Even if
>you cannot travel there, most stores will ship the furniture
>for less than the cost of sales tax (which is avoided by an inter-
>state purchase).  

Many (most?) states have not just a "sales tax", but a "sales and use"
tax, under which, if you make an out-of-state purchase of goods to be
used in the state, YOU are responsible for calculating the amount of
the tax and sending it in.  For example, for cars in particular, the
state DMV often serves as a collection agency for cars purchased out of
state and then "imported".  CA and SC (and I am pretty sure PA too) have
such laws, so they are not uncommon.

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