Ken Schneider
> On Sep 3, 2017, at 10:13 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > In the United States "Sales Tax" is a generic term for taxes that are > collected at the point-of-sale and usually turned over to a state, city, > county or other government agency by retailers. > > It is even difficult to make a concise and grammatically correct statement > to describe the process. > > I live near Cook County Illinois in the Chicago area where the county > decided recently to tax all sweetened beverages by the ounce, as you > probably read in the Internet. For that tax, it is calculated in a silly > way and it is only supposed to be collected by retailers selling at > certain business addresses, but perhaps not across the street. > > On the other hand, automobile sales taxes are determined by the buyer's > residence address and must be collected by automobile retailers when > completing a sale along with a lot of other paperwork, that cannot be > completed on Sunday when all car dealers cannot sell cars. In Florida automobile sellers are open and sell vehicles 7 days a week. Just thought I would throw in my 1.5 cents. Ken _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
