seth_wilde - 10:37 pm on Feb 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

"In the US VAT on online sales just got delayed, right?"

They're still not sure what they want to do about it. We've never had to pay sales tax (our version of VAT) on anything ordered through catologs or the internet (unless the company is located in the same state as the buyer). There are a few congressmen who have been pushing to tax the internet but I believe the majority are still against it (for now).

If the US does decide to tax the internet the whole thing will probably become a huge mess. Our sales tax is decided by local goverments rather than the federal goverment. The taxes not only change by state but by city/town as well. So if the US was to tax the internet we would either have to make a change or keep up with the sales tax of hundreds of thousands of different cities across the country.