Pragmatic Not-Legal Advice on Dealing with US Sales Tax for Early Stage Startups

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Nightmarish complexity. It's amazing folks figure out how to navigate this. The friction is such an absurd cost.

Just imagining the legal risk hanging around one's neck had to be an unbelievable tax on entrepreneurs.

(side note, submitter parkaboy, your Gibsonian name was fun to run across)

Cheers! Yeah. Not great. At least most (not all) of the state laws are pretty reasonable by themselves (awful to track in aggregate) if you're small beans and just getting starting.

What sucks is that lawyers, consultants, and sales tax software companies love to make the answer to the "do I need to worry about compliance right now?" question super opaque and scary unless you pay them $$$$$$$, when the short answer is "no" (with a few caveats) when you're just getting started.

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