A few years ago I worked at a small ISP. We had a series of 100 telephone numbers even though we only were 10 people in the company. And in those days everybody got 4 telephone books each (one white pages, on yellow pages, for the local county and the neighbouring county). Of course the phone company had to send us 400 phone books! When we refused to take them, they just dumped them in a corner of our parking lot.
To simplify this tax-thing, why not demand that companies gather tax for customers by having a database of Zip-codes and tax rates. Should be a simple thing to set up so that the company pays the tax to a federal service, along with a list of sales and zipcodes. The feds then divide the taxes to the states, counties, cities and so on.
Or even simpler, do as in the EU, where they have Value-Added Tax instead of sales tax, and the tax is payable according to the where the company is, not where the buyer is...
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A few years ago I worked at a small ISP. We had a series of 100 telephone numbers even though we only were 10 people in the company. And in those days everybody got 4 telephone books each (one white pages, on yellow pages, for the local county and the neighbouring county). Of course the phone company had to send us 400 phone books! When we refused to take them, they just dumped them in a corner of our parking lot.
Or even simpler, do as in the EU, where they have Value-Added Tax instead of sales tax, and the tax is payable according to the where the company is, not where the buyer is...