said by r81984:I thought I was amongst peers. Usually you dont explain the little things when you already know your audience can grasp the concepts on their own.
I can grasp the concept on my own. In the State of California, a sales tax is supposed to be collected on every item purchased. Buy it from a seller with no physical presence in the state and the buyer is
supposed to report the purchase and pony up the tax. That nobody ever does that doesn't make it OK to not do that. Used items are supposed to be taxed here, too.
WRT a seller in Ohio collecting taxes on out-of-state purchases: Unless he is reporting, and submitting payment to the buyer's state, he is wrong. But some states expect their citizens to pay a tax, whether the merchant collects it, or not.