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Old Jan 23, 2008 | 9:41 pm
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Originally Posted by dtsm
Apple and brick/mortar (eg J&R) will charge sales tax, no way around it. Only solution is from say amazon.com, smalldog.com, etc. - free shipping and no sales tax.
Any merchant that has a physical presence in a state has to charge state sales tax when shipping into that state. If there were no Apple stores in New York State, for example, they wouldn't have to charge the tax - but there are, so they do.
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