For California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Texas State residents, applicable sales tax will be applied.

In theory, that means SonicBlue has operations in those states and must collect tax. In all other states, the buyer is supposed to be a good US citizen and pay his state what is due at tax time. Most don't and companies know this. For example, Gateway has a different company that sells their computers online. "Gateway.com" is the official title of the company, and tax is only collected in the 4 states they operate. This keeps it seperate from the Country Stores they run in I believe all 50 states.