Chambers wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   Because when you bring the car to Finland you have to pay the taxes
>>> anyways.
>>
>> In the US they're clever. They don't call it "sales tax". They call it 
>> "use tax".  So you can't go to a state without sales tax, buy a car or 
>> boat or something, and avoid paying your home sales tax.
>>
> 
> Depends on the state, since individual states implement sales taxes. For 
> instance, Washington State has a sales tax.  Oregon doesn't.  Lot's of 
> Washintonians who live on the border do their shopping in Oregon as a 
> result.

But if you buy something big, like a car or a boat, and take it back to 
Washington, when you try to register it to use it, they'll charge you a 
"use tax". That's what I'm saying. They couldn't charge you a sales tax, 
because you didn't buy it in their jurisdiction. But they can charge you 
a use tax for driving it there.

In theory, this is true of most everything. In practice, they can only 
catch you if you're required to tell them you bought it.  It is, for 
example, why it's illegal to bring cigarettes into New York without 
paying for New York tobacco stamps, and the same with liquor in 
Pennsylvania.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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