I just called and spoke with the president of the company. They have offices in 42 states in the US. Anywhere they have offices or places of business they are required by law to charge sales tax. If I were to walk down to their local distributor I would be charged tax, as a result ordering directly from the factory/supplier results in sales tax being applied to the sale. This is not a small company like Stillen or JWT where there is one office. That's how it was explained to me..