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Re: Taxes in the digicash world (fwd)
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> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:14:50 -0700
> From: [email protected] (Timothy C. May)
> Subject: Re: Taxes in the digicash world
>
> * electronic and computer goods are often untaxed because many order them
> via mail-order. There have been proposals to tax out-of-state purchases,
> but the logistics and legal issues are murky (who gets the tax? and why
> should Idaho, for example, get the tax revenue for an item ordered from
> Georgia?).
The State of Texas requires by law that tax be paid on out of state
purchases. You legaly should send in a check with copies of the receipts
each year to the State Comptrollers Office. Historicaly everyone ignores it.
Jim Choate