What if there were TWO octocopters, carrying the PS4 on an HDMI cable between them?

And what exactly is the airspeed velocity of an unladen octocopter?

Aren't PS4s migratory anyways?

Expect every rental car to come with this factory-installed. Not only can the company track it's cars, but they can combine the customer's driving pattern with their profile and sell it. Frequent travellers/renters would be an obvious target, but everyone could be included if it's done cheaply enough. And in real-time, too.

That's what you have grad students for...

Especially Halo - hard-light stuff everywhere

(including bridges)

Do the mothers still get the extra 8 weeks, even though there was no traumatic (and apparently debilitating) childbirth involved?

Or do adoptions just not count (no leave for you....)?

Um, the Seller does *not* get your mailing address.. just Country/State/City/Postal code. Usually (but not always) just enough to figure out the local taxes.

Google does *not* pass on the home address, or CC number.

No - they allow the developer to set one (and only one) sales tax rate to be applied to an entire state. I believe there are only 4 states in the U.S. that have sales tax. But in addition to the base State rate, counties, cities, school districts, fire districts, etc. can all add their own tax on *top* of the State rate. So the price you are charged for a given item can vary by up to several percent depending on your exact location. Walk a block, save 1/2% or more).

The developer is responsible for locating the purchaser's exact tax district, and computing the sales tax at that address. Google doesn't really give enough information to do this properly, because tax districts don't follow zip code boundaries. So sometimes you have to guess, and hope to avoid a prison term for not properly identifying where that $0.02 tax should go.

If you're going to give Google a faze zip, do the small developers a favor and make sure it's a non-sales tax state. Out of state sales are no problem - that's just a straight business tax.

So how do they report that to *you*, the developer? I have to fill out a sales tax report with my B&O taxes - there's no way of saying "Apple paid it - go ask them". Unless you get some sort of official statement tied to your business license, *or* Apple treats you like a 1099.

Yes, the local taxing districts seriously want their money. Each and every one of them (there are around 100 or so in this state). Since this is an Internet transaction, the rate depends on the location of the consumer. If you are buying something at a phyiscal store, they add their local tax into the purchase price right there. Online, it's determined by where *you* live (or rather, where the credit card registered on Google is).

The way Google has set it up, the developer is responsible for sending in the correct tax to the State. Google technically doesn't collect the tax - they just pass it along. The developer has to account for it, and send in the money and itemize where it should apply. That is, I have to record how much I sold to customers in each of those little tax districts, apply their local rate, and add this in with the State's base rate.

It's a real pain for the small developer, but it only applies in some cases. I don't sell apps outside the U.S., because I'd have to calculate and remit VAT in many countries, and that's just too expensive.

Which is exactly what they do provide....

How does Apple handle the local sales tax issue? If I sell an app to a customer in my state, I'm obligated to remit the correct sales *for that customer's location*. Does Apple graciously compute the correct tax for every little taxing district, and automatically add that to the app price? How do they report that to the developers, for their B&O tax returns?

Or are Apple app developers ignoring it and waiting to get slammed by the tax authorities?

Sales tax.

No, the *name* of the customer does not. But their *location* does matter. States with sales tax have a multitude of little taxing districts (which do not always align with municipal boundaries). The people in those districts have voted to tax their purchases at a certain rate. So the State expects to collect sales tax at the correct rate for the location of the purchaser. They then remit to the taxing district their share of the proceeds.

Tax authorities get very, very put out when they don't get their miniscule pittance of the State's cut.