Dan Novaes describes how he legally avoided paying about $1,200 in sales tax on his wedding ring by using a freight-forwarding mailbox in a sales-tax-free state (examples named: Oregon, Delaware, Montana). He explains the process: have the seller ship to the freight-forwarding address (point of sale is that tax-free state), then have the service forward the item to your real address (example: Salem, Oregon to Illinois). He frames the method as applicable to many purchases and highlights potential large savings on high-value items.
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When I bought my wedding ring, the price was already high. But the sales tax, that was a real punch until I found a legal way to skip it entirely. Use a freight forwarding mailbox. Most people assume the sales tax is a non negotiable. But what they don't realize is that it's based where the item is shipped, not necessarily where you live. In some states like Oregon, Delaware and Montana have no sales tax at all. Now this doesn't just apply to wedding rings. This could apply to anything if you really think about it. Amazon purchases, E Comm purchases and anything and even cars. But here's an example of how I was able to hack my wedding ring and not pay $1,200 in sales tax. So here's the move. You set up a freight forwarding mailbox in no sales tax state. The address becomes your shipping location and the item gets forward to you from there. Because the point of sale is at the tax free state, you legally avoid the charge. So an example. I buy something like a wedding ring. I have my jeweler send it to my freight forwarding box in Salem, Oregon. The box is then set up because there's these services that I'm paying for to then once they get my mail to then send it to me and my address in a different state. So in this case, say Illinois, you save 100% on the sales tax. So think about this. On your annual purchases, if you were spending 20, 30, 40, $50,000 a year or you have a big purchase like a wedding ring, this is extremely large amounts of savings for doing very, very little work on a course of a lifetime, you could be saving up to six fig thinkers in revenue. If you want to get more of this, follow us and get all of our hacks for free.
