[Elecraft] INTERNET PURCHASING

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Unless you live in Oregon where there is no sales tax at all. AFAIK,
Montana, Delaware, Alaska and New Hampshire also have no sales tax.

It's easy to think of the USA as one country, but we are actually 50
separate republics who have conceded limited powers to the Federal
Government, and each republic (state) is jealously guarding its individual
rights :-)

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----


Stephen,

In the USA when you buy something from out of the state you live in, you
only save sales tax if the out of state vendor has no offices or outlets in
your state.  For example, if you buy something direct from Microsoft you
will pay sales tax because they have offices in every state in the USA.
However if you buy from a VENDOR of their product and that vendor is not in
your state, you will pay no sales tax.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit
to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
-- George Washington --

On Wed, 30 May 2012 22:22:25 +0100, Stephen Prior <eastbrantwood at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>Finally, it has always seemed to me rather bizarre that someone buying 
>something in the USA from another state does not pay sales tax.  So I 
>have every sympathy with the 'small town' shopkeeper losing sales.  
>Personally, so long as I don't think I'm being really ripped off, I 
>will buy from the local store every time.  It's unfortunate that the 
>sales tax system in the US appears to discourage buying anything 'in
state'.
>
>73 Stephen G4SJP
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