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From: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
Message-ID: <781@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
Date: 28 Aug 89 16:11:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon, PA
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> Thus, if you buy something mail
> order from IL, you will have to pay IL state sales tax.
> -- 
> Chris Riley         chris.riley@attbl.att.com       prodigy: kdfv03a


I have purchased a lot of goods through mail-order, computer-related
and otherwise.  My experience has been that I either am asked to pay
NO tax as an out-of-stater, or I must pay the tax of MY state.  I've
never seen it where I have to pay the tax of the state where the
mail-order firm is headquartered (unless, of course, that firm is
centered in my own state).

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.