A
-- if purchasing things mail order, if, if I'm a computer consulting firm and I see these, this great deal on forty-six mother boards, uh, from, from say Utah. Um, I, I might buy the mother boards from Utah but then still have to pay Pennsylvania sales tax. My a-, accounting department will at the end of the month. I think that i-, i-, I think that's the way things work in Pennsylvania. And I know they work that way in, uh, say here in D C.
B
Yeah. See I'm unfamiliar with that because I don't, I never see that end of the business.
A
Yeah.
B
So, my only experience has been from the point of view of a consumer. Uh, but, if that's the case, if the business is responsible for policing themselves, then I think some well defined mechanisms need to be in place so that, uh, the opportunity f-, to forget that you owe sales tax for something, uh, can be avoided.
A
That's true. I-, i-, a r-, a big hole does exist right now, uh, in that consumers can just say oh, I, I forgot that. There, there is no well defined mechanism at all and, and that it is a a l-, loss. I, I think is that the Federal government will try to establish a mechanism ju-, just to do just that in or-, in order to gain the revenue that's being lost. Uh, I mean, I, I don't know if I agree with that. But it, but,
B
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