RE: Local, City, County Sales Tax and Taxes

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[quote]Well, from what I understand it seems like the local tax is rather county dependent rather than city dependent. [/quote]

If the tax was only dependant on the county you were in, why would you need a city tax?  I may be wrong but if it worked that way it would seem kind of redundant to give a city a specific tax when the county tax is the one that is used in calculations.

[quote]Here's another mindteaser. I assume you do know that the only location the tax goes by is by the MAIN account address information...This can be a trap because now a customer uses his credit card in S.F or Huntington Beach but has his order shipped to Memphis, TN. Should he be charged CA tax just because he uses a credit card that has the billing address in CA?[/quote]

Yes, they should be charged tax.  If the credit card billing address is in Huntington, then the individual has a residence there, therefore needs to pay the Huntington tax.  If I live in Huntington and buy something for a relative in New York and have New York as the shipping address, I still have to pay Huntington tax, assuming the shop I bought from is in Huntington also.

[quote]Plus the customer is given wrong information when he selects his billing address as Memphis, TN...but really the tax and credit card will be processed as CA.[/quote]

I imagine there might be some person out there that has two houses in two different states that has different credit cards for each state, but I don't know if I would re-write the code in my shop for them.  That's just me though.