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Re:Cable Companies, Automakers Try to Derail FTC, FCC Quest ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:04PM (#39265468)
> India for example has a ton of different taxes and until a few years ago the differences between states and different products were significant

India has two, maybe three, levels of taxation: central, state and maybe local. In America, you may have dozens of overlapping cities, counties, water districts, school districts and high school districts before we get to municipal, state and federal.

Re:Cable Companies, Automakers Try to Derail FTC, FCC Quest ... by mgkimsal on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:38PM (#39265968)
My own experience in a few different states is that it's usually just township/city, then maybe county, then state to be concerned about, but... the what is often more confusing. Selling a chemical? That's a specific tax rate. Applying that chemical? Might be a different rate, and might only be applied to the labor.

The big one that tripped up the client was not charging/collecting tax on shipping. They weren't, but the tax engine said that they should be. I think the rules on that had changed sometimes perhaps 10-15 years earlier in the areas they served, but they never kept abreast of that change. This was already several years ago, so my recollection is a bit hazy now.