Stephen Sprunk wrote:
On 23-Jan-12 13:01, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
John Levine wrote:

That's a load of crap. You want the merchant to handle monies that have
to be refunded, eventually, claiming it's simpler.

Yeah, it's simpler. I have both a NY sales tax merchant account and a
Canadian GST account. The GST is much easier to deal with.

What's your experience with VAT?

So, you're a reseller, and you would find it simpler to pay the tax you're
not subject to and then get it rebated?

You apparently don't understand how a VAT works.

I understand just fine how VAT works. John Levine made an irrelevant
comment about VAT, which I ignored.

How do you think the former system is simpler?

I made no such comment. Why not address your question in followup to
John Levine's article?

All I said was that I disagreed with YOUR suggestion that the merchant
collect sales tax from everyone, including transactions in which the
law would not impose a sales tax.