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Take a good guess and let the user type in their zip code?

• ssl-3 2y ago
  Zip codes are for postal routing, not tax rates. Items I order at home are subject to a 7.25% sales tax rate. My neighbor across the street (our front doors are maybe 80 feet apart) pays 6.75%. We both live in the same zip code. We both live within the same city. We both live in the same school district. We each live in two different counties. (And up the road a bit, a third county is involved instead.)
  • xandrius 2y ago
    Enter your county then? Dunno enter something to differentiate.
    • ssl-3 2y ago
      That seems simple, too. But some cities have their own sales taxes in addition to (or instead of) county sales taxes, so county alone isn't good enough. Besides, there's literally 30 different counties in the US named "Hancock". (If this were an easy problem to solve it'd have been solved a long time ago.) --- I think we're already back to where we started, wherein: In order to display an accurate sales tax, we need to know the address, city, and state of the buyer.
  • turbojet1321 2y ago
    This seems less like a defense of pre-tax prices and more like an indictment of a thoroughly ridiculous tax system.
    • ssl-3 2y ago
      Not at all. I'm really not trying to defend anything here. It is my considered opinion that it is all quite resoundingly fucked.