Taxes are determined by the CITY, COUNTY and STATE to which the order is shipping.

Although associates have access to the discounted, wholesale price of the product, we are required by law to charge taxes at the retail price of the product because as an associate and registered business, you are purchasing with the intent to resell (even if you consume/use the product yourself). We remit the taxes directly to the government for you, saving you the trouble and paperwork of doing so yourself (see Policies and Procedures 9.3) 
 

• ASEA Policies and Procedures 9.3
  In designing the ASEA opportunity, one of our guiding philosophies has been to free Associates from as many administrative, operational, and logistical tasks as possible. In doing so, Associates are free to concentrate on those activities that directly affect their incomes, namely Product sales and enrollment activities. To these ends, ASEA relieves Associates of the burdens of collecting and remitting sales taxes, filing sales tax reports, and keeping records relative to sales taxes.

  By virtue of its business operations, ASEA is required to charge sales taxes on all purchases made by Associates and Preferred Customers, and remit the taxes charged to the respective states. Accordingly, ASEA will collect and remit sales taxes on behalf of Associates, based on the suggested retail price of the Products, according to applicable tax rates in the state or province to which the shipment is destined. If an Associate has submitted, and ASEA has accepted, a current Sales Tax Exemption Certificate and Sales Tax Registration License, sales taxes will not be added to the invoice and the responsibility of collecting and remitting sales taxes to the appropriate authorities shall be on the Associate. Exemption from the payment of sales tax is applicable only to orders which are shipped to a state for which the proper tax exemption papers have been filed and accepted. Applicable sales taxes will be charged on orders that are drop-shipped to another state. Any sales tax exemption accepted by ASEA is not retroactive.