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Target has a physical presence in many locations, so they already have the tax data for those locations. If they just calculate the taxes based on the rate at the nearest Target location (which is what would happen if you went to the physical store and bought something), then it would be easy. If they have to calculate the tax based on the address of the recipient, the problem becomes insanely difficult.



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