This sounds like a terrible idea from a technology standpoint as each county and city seemingly has different sales tax rates. To comply with taxation, every ou

This sounds like a terrible idea from a technology standpoint as each county and city seemingly has different sales tax rates. To comply with taxation, every out of state company will now need to pull the active sales tax rates for the shipping destination and then apply this to the order. What happens if the rate isn't kept up to date? Are states like California actually ready to supply this data in a form that is easily consumable as a web service rather than a PDF file, to avoid hindering interstate commerce? Personally I don't think Amazon is completely the victim in this situation. Their attorneys spend quite a bit of time and money figuring out how to avoid paying tax. I interviewed once for an Amazon.com company who's "primary" development offices were in California, yet their checks came from their "legal" headquarters in Nevada. Shady at best... for example: http://www.lab126.com http://www.lab126.com