Originally Posted by
bthotugigem05
Imagine the burden that would put on a giant restaurant chain to print up menus for every county specifically, or McDonalds to manufacture menus for every single locality in which they operate.
Oh no, poor little McDonalds is going to have to spend soooo much money keeping track of all the taxes in different areas!
This sounds like when Amazon was complaining that they shouldn't have to collect sales tax because it would be too difficult to keep track of the tax rates in different cities. Now they have started collecting sales tax in several states, and this hasn't caused their computers to crash yet.
There aren't all that many different tax rates. For example, California has hundreds of cities and counties, but around 2/3 of them have a tax rate of either 7.5% or 8%. I'm sure any kid with a computer science degree could write the necessary software to handle their menu printing.