"If you permanently or habitually reside outside of the EU, you will likely be considered a “visitor” for VAT refund purposes. In these cases you are not subject to the VAT and may be able to claim a refund. Unlike tourists, business travelers can also claim the tax they paid on lodging and meals."

https://www.claimcompass.eu/blog/how-to-claim-vat-refund/

"bow at the alter of the almighty paperwork gods!"

So basically a VAT only effects people living there

And if you don't live there you don't pay the VAT

where a sales tax effects everyone who shops there, so another reason VAT taxes are dumb.

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Sorry little tired

I think both sales tax and VAT are dumb. They're relics of socialist reforms.

where I live people drive sometimes over 3 hours down form canada to go shoping because the taxes are better, and then they also have to pay a tax when they go back into canada on any stuff they bought anyway!

I feel like the taxes should be delt with on a town level, how the town does it i don't care.
then the towns send some money to the state, and the state sends some money to the federal level.
would make several problems just go away.

Sounds like Me when I drove up to New Hampshire just to get Whiskey

It would eliminate so many meaningless jobs, too.

But that's exactly why it won't happen.

ahh, you aren't a Masshole are you Ordis?

(liveing in mass and being a masshole are not the same thing)

No, I'm a New Yorker who wants to hang our Governor

wait, you drove form NY all the way into NH for booze?

you must have been in the north east of NY then?

Well my mom was working in Massachusetts

In the Boston area

Boston sucks, but i know the area well enough i think.
drove truck down there all the time.

My dad gets her Bourbon and Whiskey to Cheer her up

So when visiting one day we drove out to NH to get her some

I always get a kick out of how NH has liquor outlets on the highway.

they are also the only state that has NO seatbelt laws.

I got a Kick out of it that it was first Building I saw when we got up there

yup!

(on topic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTVNZojojU

I mean it's is a great place to put it

Since it's right over the State lines

The southern New Englanders can cross the border for their booze

I also love that in NH they don't care what lane the trucks are in.

also the only state I know of that is like that as well.

I would totally move down to NH if it wasn't so close to mass and being over taken by people moveing up form there.

From what I heard that NH was Restructuring the Voting Laws so that Massholes can't Vote in their Elections anymore

woo!

I like the idea of saying "you have to live here for a few years before you can vote"

hopefully the massholes just forget to setup to vote by the time they can.

Like I remember hearing that people from Massachusetts had like residences up there that during election day they cross the border to meddle in their Elections

oh you ment like that....
still woo, just a little less woo.