[GNC] Automatic sales tax

[Adrien Monteleone]

Our Legislature has set up at least 2 of those per year, and they can 
always do another or more one-offs.

And at that, they aren't 'general' holidays. They only apply to the 
State rate, (and maybe not all of it at that) and then only to specific 
goods, and then not for written sales, but actual delivered sales 
(unless delivery is not available during the holiday due to no fault of 
the customer) to deter customers requesting later delivery as a 
loophole, but surprisingly, you can *start* a layaway plan during the 
holiday at the reduced rate!! Madness, I say, sheer madness. Every 
legislator and governor should be forced to do business under their own 
rules, even if just for a day. (and then make them try to write software 
to 'streamline' their madness)

Regards,
Adrien

On 2/28/22 5:58 PM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> 
>> It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to believe
>> that we have the most complex tax system on the planet.
>>
>> Liz
> 
> 
> The reason is that here in the US sales tax is not national. The US is a 
> federation of states and commonwealths. You would not be surprised if 50 
> countries had highly different rules about sales tax, whether or not had 
> one, what rates and what applied to and we were discussing transactions 
> crossing country boundaries. So why does it seem surprising with our 
> states.
> 
> We haven't even begun to discuss another level of complexity for the 
> proposed software to deal with. It would also have to be able to be 
> turned off for each state by date range! That's because it is not at all 
> unusual for the governor of a state that has sales tax to declare a "tax 
> holiday" << to boost business >>