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- From: wille@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Ordering SAS/C Version 6
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.195042.23787@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:50:42 GMT
- References: <BtAsGE.J1E@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug20.210844.27609@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.210844.27609@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>, mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller) writes:
- |> In article <BtAsGE.J1E@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
- |> >I just got my upgrade order form today. There's one puzzling thing on it,
- |> >and that's the sales tax. Am I to understand that I need to tack on
- |> >Illinois state tax (since I live in Illinois), even though SAS is in North
- |> >Carolina?
- |>
- |> As long as SAS has an office in a state, they must charge sales tax there
- |> (I think that's the law ... but soon all the mail order places will charge
- |> tax in all states).
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- I believe that's correct. I just upgraded by Borland C++ compiler and the
- guy told me he had to charge sales tax because they have an office in
- Washington. And Washington has a killer 8.2% sales tax :-(
-
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- Robert
-
- There is evidence that the brain is like a computer. If that's true,
- then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
-