North Carolina is having its first Sales Tax Holiday today. The rules and stipulations are mind-numbingly complex, however.
For example, computer parts are exempt if sold with a CPU. It doesn’t say what constitutes a CPU. I assume you could buy a force-feedback joystick and an ancient 486 processor chip and that would count.
Or, you could make the argument that most computer peripherials have CPU’s built-in, and thus would be sold with a CPU. Albeit, these are custom CPU’s, but would meet the legal definition.
Anyway, the whole thing is a big nightmare for retailers, especially small retailers such as Siteseers. If I’m selling things around the time of next year’s “holiday,” I might just close up shop those days to avoid the headaches.
This is what happens when politicians are left unsupervised.