RE: Local, City, County Sales Tax and Taxes

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[quote]Is it possible to have States/Zones setup as follows: 

State 
State, City 1 
State, City 2 (if required?)[/quote]

Well I tried that approach since it was suggested by others, and unless I did the whole thing incorrectly, or am totally misunderstanding what you're suggesting, this isn't viable because the USER selects their tax rate in a drop down box.  This isn't an option... dishonest people will choose the 50% less State tax alone; and some honest people in suburbs of the city but not under the tax zone won't understand and will be charged 50%more tax inappropriately.

The second problem with this is that we manually have to go through all of these sales so that our accounting is accurate - if some didn't pay, it comes out of our pocket; if they paid and weren't supposed to we have to send them a refund.  To either charge someone the wrong tax, or to not charge them tax is a criminal offense here.  It's simply not the right thing to do, and is an accounting nightmare.

Harold... if I'm misunderstanding the solution you are offering than please correct me and let me know how to do this right.  I've considered all of the options I could find, yet still have not found an appropriate solution.