incorrect one was given:
The site seller is required to charge tax to any buyer who resides in a
state where the site seller legally does business. If the seller has a
license to do business in New York, if the buyer is not in New York, there
is no tax, if they are, full New York tax applies (not refined to
municipality level taxes -it's the full amount (city, state and local
sales tax combined).
If the seller legally does business in New York and California, any buyer
from either of those states would be required to pay the sales tax for that
State.
NOTE: - Congress has been toying for years with sales tax required in ALL
50 states regardless of current location - eventually they will most likely
require that. (The EU has started to do this so potentially the US won't
be too far behind). When that happens the nightmare of keeping current
sales tax rates on the site begins.
My shopping carts already allow the site owner to manually add a State/Tax
rate combination in the admin area - allows for all 50 states and
Washington DC- give them a feature like this now and use it as a selling
point (basically to say your system does what all the top commerce systems do).
ALSO (this is extra info below is for anyone reading who isn't familiar
with card authorization and the legal requirements of it)
IF credit cards are accepted for product based sales, the seller can not
legally charge the card until the product is shipped. Live card processing
allows for two steps - authorization at time of purchase, then
after-the-fact charge the card (usually in a batch process to save the site
owner hassles of needing to log into the auth company admin for every
single purchase separately.
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