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poorlyknit | 1 year ago

A zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already.

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runako|1 year ago

ZIP codes are not specific enough.

In some areas, sales tax is actual multiple taxes from different overlapping jurisdictions: state, county, city, and sometimes special tax district. ZIP codes don't align with any of these, so you need to know exactly where the buyer is in order to properly calculate sales tax.

There are places where adjacent addresses in the same ZIP code have different sales tax rates.

reaperducer|1 year ago

A zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already.

There's probably a Things Developers Believe About ZIP Codes list out there somewhere.

kaonwarb|1 year ago

Even within a state a single 5-digit ZIP can have multiple tax rates if it spans multiple cities; true where I live.

itake|1 year ago

Unfortunately, there are 13 zip codes that span across multiple states.

mawif|1 year ago

There are 41,000+ zip codes.

syndicatedjelly|1 year ago

The zip code I live in spans two different cities (as well as different counties in my state). It's stupid but also it's reality