Tax Tables - an illustrated primer?

[Kenneth Schneider]

Ken Schneider 

> On Sep 3, 2017, at 10:13 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the United States "Sales Tax" is a generic term for taxes that are
> collected at the point-of-sale and usually turned over to a state, city,
> county or other government agency by retailers.
> 
> It is even difficult to make a concise and grammatically correct statement
> to describe the process.
> 
> I live near Cook County Illinois in the Chicago area where the county
> decided recently to tax all sweetened beverages by the ounce, as you
> probably read in the Internet.  For that tax, it is calculated in a silly
> way  and it is only supposed to be collected by retailers selling at
> certain business addresses, but perhaps not across the street.
> 
> On the other hand, automobile sales taxes are determined by the buyer's
> residence address and must be collected by automobile retailers when
> completing a sale along with a lot of other paperwork, that cannot be
> completed on Sunday when all car dealers cannot sell cars.
In Florida automobile sellers are open and sell vehicles 7 days a week.
Just thought I would throw in my 1.5 cents.

Ken