[SAJ]

It's a bigger mess than you indicate. State sales taxes are bad enough, but you would ALSO be required to collect (and presumably account for and distribute) county and LOCAL sales taxes. At any rate, that's the way the law in the state of Missouri reads.

Just to make your day, Missouri has over 1800 taxing political subdivisions and special districts.

Talk about unworkable, jeez!

[dawn53]

True, in my state, for instance, different counties have different sales tax rates. This already causes us issues in collecting taxes from our state alone...as you said, what if it was duplicated across 50 states.

Inconceivable!!!