Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!um-math!sharkey!cfctech!teemc!hpftc!zardoz!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!burdvax!dvnspc1!gary 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 Lines: 17 > 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.