The majority of online retailers based in the US now collect European
sales taxes on downloadable sales to European customers. If I buy
'software' - a program, clip-art or whatever from the US I have to pay
17.5% VAT and in most cases the store will charge that and pass it on
to the UK government. Since the online stores have already had to set
that up to cope with all the different EU members (which have various
different VAT rates) adding support for your local state taxes would be
trivial.
Physical goods are taxed on entry (which means you pay the postman the
due tax or you don't get the package).
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William T Goodall
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Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
"Our products just aren't engineered for security." - Brian Valentine,
senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development
team.
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