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A zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already.
by poorlyknit 2y ago
A zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already.
- kaonwarb 2y agoEven within a state a single 5-digit ZIP can have multiple tax rates if it spans multiple cities; true where I live.
- itake 2y agoUnfortunately, there are 13 zip codes that span across multiple states.
- mawif 2y agoThere are 41,000+ zip codes.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoAnd 13 of them do not uniquely identify which state you're in.
- runako 2y agoZIP 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.
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoThe 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
- reaperducer 2y agoA zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already. There's probably a Things Developers Believe About ZIP Codes list out there somewhere.