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A municipal tax on cable TV can be enforced because there's a physical line to a residence in the municipality. What's stopping users from ordering netflix to
by throwaway76543 10y ago
A municipal tax on cable TV can be enforced because there's a physical line to a residence in the municipality.
What's stopping users from ordering netflix to an "address" in a tax-free municipality? For that matter, how are they determining this in the first place? I never told netflix where I live; they only have a billing address. But billing addresses aren't where tax is due; I regularly pay municipally taxed services for one address at another billing address.
- Spooks 10y agowouldn't they go off the billing address if they could not determine it in another way?
- throwaway76543 10y agoUnder what authority? Why would netflix cooperate with that?
- _asummers 10y agoThat was how it worked in Chicago. People with billing addresses for e.g. their parent's houses in the suburbs were not affected.
- dawnerd 10y agoI pay Netflix with my paypal account that has a fake address that doesn't exist anywhere in the world.
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- Esau 10y agoNetFlix offers gift cards, so you don't even have to worry about a real address if you don't want to.