just bought a refrigerator via Amazon last month, glad we beat the sales tax on that big ticket item.
If it is a energy star appliance you may be able to deduct the sales tax on your state taxes.
Why? Now you have to keep track of that purchase, and do the “use tax” on your Virginia state income tax. That’s harder than having Amazon collect it.
Otherwise, you can’t sign your income tax form where it says you have truthfully filled in all the information. Because if you do say you filled it in, and you put “0 dollars” for your use tax amount, you will be committing perjury, and since you just confessed to the purchase publicly, it will be hard for you to argue that you didn’t buy it.