If you go to Europe where they collect VAT on just about everything, collect your receipts and present them at the airport just before departure, they’ll refund all your VAT payments, because, why not, that is a civilized way of handling taxation. Why should I pay California sales tax on a purchase made in New York?
No,that's not the way it works.This article is about Amazon having agreed to collect California sales tax on all purchases *shipped to a California address*,not *all* shipments.For example,in the last few years I've bought electronics items from a couple of large retailers in NYC.No sales tax,either New York or Massachusetts,was collected on these puchases by these firms.If the items had been shipped to a NY address then NY sales tax would have been added.But because these stores haven't agreed to collect Massachusetts sales tax on items shipped to the state then the firms don't add it.This is an issue that has leftist government tax collectors nationwide screaming bloody murder.I mean...how *dare* a person living in a particular state be able to buy something WITHOUT PAYING TAX!?!?
Massachusetts and New Hampshire (neigboring states,one with an outrageous sales tax rate and the other with *no* sales tax) have had battles over this very subject...New hampshire having won all of them.