Phillip is right, but slight addition, in the Amazon case sometimes you are actually buying from third party through Amazon so if you pick a source with a physical presence in the wrong state you will have to pay the sales tax. Now if you ship to some states without a physical presence again you might have to pay Use Tax.
A physical presence can be anything physical not necessarily and office or store, it can even be a warehouse, data center etc. So you might find nothing listed in a particular state about a company yet it has physical presence there. Some of these purchase can be tricky
----- "Philip Musyoki" <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
These are the actual prices you will get if you buy from the Apple Store. There will be an additional sales tax of around 5 or 6 percent depending on the state where it is being shipped. Shipping is free.
>
If you buy from
Amazon.com, you may get a bargain on not paying the sales tax if it is being shopped to a state without physical presence of Amazon. There are a couple of those. Most of these items will also be shopped free by Amazon.
>
If you buy from the UK, it is still the same but more expensive as their prices are in GBP. There is a VAT tax if around 20% which may be refundable if you are exiting the country with the item and all the paper work.
> Sent from my iPhone
Recommended Steve Jobs retail price for the wi-fi model is - "Starting from $499"
for the wi-fi+3G model the price is - "Starting from $629"
And these are for the 16GB models.
Who has ever bought them at these "low" prices?
For some reason - across Africa, everybody is always tryin to sell us the 16GB models for $1000...
While Apple sells the most expensive wi-fi+3G models at $829 !!!!
<happy shopping>
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