[GNC] Accounting for GST in Australia

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 12:59:28 EDT 2021


Yep.  Lake County Illinois just added 4 cents per gallon tax on gasoline  ⛽
sales.  You can bet good money that most locals are planning their
purchases to occur in Wisconsin when possible.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 10:57 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 7/7/2021 11:46 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> > Even worse, sometimes local sales taxes in the 🇺🇸 depend on where
> > the buyer lives, not where the seller does business.
>
> That is almost always true, and to make this even worse, JUST the
> buyer's postal address might not be a correct indication of the state.
> Postal zip codes do NOT respect state boundaries. If that seems odd to
> you, imagine the situation where a road is the boundary between two
> states or crosses back and forth across the boundary. Do you imagine the
> post office sends two postal trucks, one to deliver to one side of the
> road and the other for the other side, or one to deliver to the
> stretches of road in one state and another for the stretches in the
> other state.
>
> How many of us have customer databases that in addition to customer
> address, store the state where this actually is as opposed to just going
> by the state that the post office is in (for that zip code)
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>


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