I should correct myself. In the county I lived in in Iowa it is 7%. The county that has the capitol has several rates depending on the location in the county and it's a mess to file sales tax. You pay the tax rate for the county that the customer lives in (unless it is a walk in retail store), not for the county your business is in. That goes for internet sales as well. In the capitol county there is 6, 6.25 and 6.5% and it's a PITA to keep track of it.

 

Way back when, it was the same in Australia... being in the Navy, I had a lic in my home state, and I got one in the state I was posted in.
Get pulled over for speeding, show the lic from the other state... they could fine you, but not take points because the lic was out of their jurisdiction (no sharing info back then).
Some weeks most of my pay was fines :-/ but never lost a point.

 

KY is 6% sales tax.

 

What's this about Australia? What was it like down there?

 

Similar to here but opposite world. I.E. Right hand drive cars, funny accents, and June is their winter.

Spent a week in 'Oz back in 1990 in the Perth/Freemantle area. They had some bad-*** looking muscle cars, and boy-oh-boy were the ladies cute. Rather than hamburger joints littering the landscape, their fare was anything mutton because sheep are the livestock of choice (due to the harsh terrain).

I have an open invite to visit a friend in Sydney. His flat is walking distance to a local brewery.

 

Accent doesn't bother me, lol. I work with Australians all the time in the computer world as we have software purchased from them.

And mutton ain't that bad lol.

I was curious, couple months ago I was checking out a college down there in NSW for a 3-year course, met the requirements to be able to migrate to 'down under', but I don't like the idea of a dinner-plate-sized daddy-long-leg haha. That would freak me out.

 

Australia is a happening place and not some backwoods society living in tents with no infrastructure

I want to go there one day

 

Oz is a long plane ride, but well worth the trip. The locals (at least in Freemantle) were awesome. My visit was a port call at the end of a deployment, but that doesn't matter.

 

Trans is starting to shift hard and weird randomly....

wonder when the thing is finally gonna **** out

 

Sorry to read this bud, I hope your other projects are coming along so you have a back up rig.