Simplest fix for out-of-state salestax

["Mr. Christopher F. Miller" <cfm@maine.com>]

Re out-of-state salestax

My understanding of salestax routine is that this in catalog.cfg:

SalesTax        s_state state

looks first to apply a sales tax to "s_state", the ship-to state
and if it finds nothing, then to "state" to apply the tax, then
to default (if it exists).

That implies that someone on the moon with a billing address in
"state" would get taxed at the "state" rates, unless I have 
"moon" in salestax.asc.  We've been lucky so far because we
have all sorts of
AL  0
type entries in our salestax files.  But even that only
works with domestic US sales.

What we want is sales tax charged according to "s_state" if
it matches anything and according to default if it does not.
We don't want minivend to look at state as long as s_state is defined.

default 0
ME      .055
Maine   .055

Am I making this harder than is really is somehow?

cfm

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