Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Evasion


When I finally made up my mind about what features I wanted on my new laptop, I realized that the only place where I could have it made to order -the HP store- charged tax. A number of other stores did not charge tax, but only had pre-built models. My stubborn self didn't want to accept either option. The solution: since the tax is calculated based on the shipping address, I had it sent to Maryland, where tax is a fraction that of Washington state. Since I was traveling there anyway, it worked out quite nicely. The morale of the story: computers are good, taxes are bad.


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