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In article <3qt4vi$585@shell1.best.com>, Lorrie Wood <lwood@best.com> wrote:
>
>	This isn't reallyb related, but I thought I'd interject that 47th
>Street Photo in NYC can't charge CA sales tax for the simple reason that 
>they aren't in CA. You can only charge sales tax within the same state,
>so people who do mail order and whatnot can't charge it for interstate
>shipping. Case in point: I worked at FAO Schwarz (a toy store in NYC),
>where one can have an item shipped directly to them from the store. If
>an item was to be shipped to a customer, we had to sit down and figure out
>which sales tax to charge. If shipped within NYC, it was 8.25% (NYC tax),
>elsewhere within NY State, only 7% could be charged. If it was any other
>state, NO sales tax could be charged. FAO has many stores in many states,
>true, but the item would be shipped fromthe NYC store to the customer's
>target, which simplified things greatly. 

This is no longer true.  I can't be sure about FAO Schwarz, but I know
that other companies have been sued by California for sales tax if they
have any "presence" here at all; if FAO still follows this practice,
they're doing something illegal.
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