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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 2730540, member: 71642&quot;]One of the states (not Virginia, one of the other ones) &#039;allows&#039; you to pay a flat rate based on your income and &#039;presumed tax&#039; vs. you tracking all your purchases and keeping a total.&nbsp; Very convenient for them...I don&#039;t underestimate someone, somewhere, during an audit asking you to explain your mail (5th amendment be darned).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But that could be my pre-coffee twisted brain thinking.&nbsp; Once I get my second cup I won&#039;t be so cynical.&nbsp; Maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>The timing for Amazon collecting Virginia tax happened to coincide with leaving the military.&nbsp; Before that as a CA citizen it was not an issue for me.&nbsp; BUT as a Virginian (like my spouse, and me after I retired) one should have been reporting all those purchases--except as we were not living in VA on military orders we were exempt (delivery not taken within the boundaries of the Commonwealth IIRC).&nbsp; My accountant says I&#039;m quite rare in that I actually report a significant use tax...basically a reasonable guess on my paypal totals...but if I ever got audited I don&#039;t want that low hanging fruit there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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