I heard recently of a store that straddles a state line (Georgia and ??)
and has the cash register in the state with the lower sales tax (or
perhaps none at all).

Alan AB2OS


On 07/07/04 03:35 pm Dave Shrader put fingers to keyboard and launched
the following message into cyberspace:

For example, Mass has a 5% sales tax on most items. NH has none. Quite
a few companies have nothing in Mass, but retail outlets just over the
border.

I'm chuckling grin.

Right off of US Route 3 at the NH/Mass state line there is a VERY VERY
large shopping mall. One day, about 2 years ago, I was looking for a
parking place at that mall and driving everywhere in the parking lot. I
had my GPS receiver in the truck. I was totally amazed to find that most
of the parking lot is in Mass and the southern most store is just [JUST]
over the state line into NH [depending on GPS error about 10 feet into
NH]. I judged that the building sidewalk is in Massachusetts and the
outside wall is in NH.

BTW, I live in NH.

And, same thing on West Coast! Go to Lake Tahoe, California- Nevada
border- Parking, and hotel in California- Casino (illegal in Cal) on
Nevada side of border, or Gold Ranch , 1 mile inside Nevada, on I-80,
tho the way the state line runs, 100 feet in back of this casino,
California Lottery tickets (illegal in Nevada, no lottery) for sale! ,
and with the crazy quilt of laws (no sales tax in Oregon), and no Income
tax in Nevada, nor Washington, well, I'll leave it to your immagination
the consequences !
Other breaks also abound on Indian Reservations (cheap cigarettes, and
other items)! As stated, isn't border hopping FUN ??? Jim NN7K


Dave Shrader wrote:
Gary S. wrote:

SNIP

For example, Mass has a 5% sales tax on most items. NH has none. Quite
a few companies have nothing in Mass, but retail outlets just over the
border.


I'm chuckling grin.

Right off of US Route 3 at the NH/Mass state line there is a VERY VERY
large shopping mall. One day, about 2 years ago, I was looking for a
parking place at that mall and driving everywhere in the parking lot. I
had my GPS receiver in the truck. I was totally amazed to find that most
of the parking lot is in Mass and the southern most store is just [JUST]
over the state line into NH [depending on GPS error about 10 feet into
NH]. I judged that the building sidewalk is in Massachusetts and the
outside wall is in NH.

BTW, I live in NH.

Deacon Dave, W1MCE

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:32:16 GMT, NN7K - Jim
wrote:

Other breaks also abound on Indian Reservations (cheap cigarettes, and
other items)! As stated, isn't border hopping FUN ??? Jim NN7K

One time, a few years back, there was an elderly farmer living in
western Maine, near the New Hampshire border.

One day, a crew of surveyors from the state came by the area. They did
all of their sightings and measurements and calculations, and then one
of them went up to the farmhouse.

He asked the farmer how long he had lived there, and the farmer
replied, "80 years, next November, I've lived on this farm here in
Maine since I was born."

He told the farmer, "we've just checked, and the state border was
marked in the wrong place. Your farm is actually in New Hampshire."

The farmer said, " Good thing, too. Don't think I could have taken
another one of those Maine winters."

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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Need to buy some kit when in the US and am looking for Ham outlets that
will despatch to
my relatives out there, or to me here in UK. Can someone please
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Thanks,

Nick

Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) http://www.aesham.com/
The Orlando store routinely ships to Central and South America -
the store is just north of the Orlando municipal airport (private aircraft).

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