[koolba]

Newegg is not obligated to collect sales take from you if they don't have a nexus in your state. Amazon has a nexus almost everywhere and thus collects sales tax from you regardless of where you order from. That's only true for orders place with Amazon itself; independent sellers at Amazon are responsible for specifying their own taxes that will be collected.

None of this, whether it's collected or not, eliminates your requirement to pay the sales or excise tax of your home State. In fact, if you go out of your way to order something or perform a transaction in a way that explicitly evades sales tax then you could be in legal trouble with your State's tax agency.

They might not care about a $200 graphics card but they do go after large offenders. Here's an example: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2017/05/broker_from_princ...

> > "I'm smart for not paying taxes." - The president Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/donald-trump-federal....

> This is also why people shop in Delaware. I wonder how many of those people reported their purchases to Pennsylvania.

Avoiding paying taxes through legal means is smart. Evading paying taxes is illegal.

[Akujin]

Yea.... I'm sure you report all your purchases at the duty free as soon as you get to American soil.

[toyg]

Duty-free goods have special dedicated legislation in most countries, I assume in the US too.

[dmoy]

Up to like $800 or something, unless I'm confusing it with yet-another-limit in the tax code.