PSA insanity (So funny I had to post but OT)

[Jim VB]

Recently I received a card in the mail urging me to renew my PSA subscription for an annual price of $100. This includes all the usual goodies (6 free submissions, a handful of cardsavers, another copy of Joe's book, yada, yada, yada.)

I did renew and enclosed my check for $100.


Today, I get a bill in the mail showing that I still owe them $6.60 for some unspecified "tax." Of course, it's after 5:00 PM in CA and their offices are closed, so there's no one to answer my questions.

But apparently, they think I owe CA sales tax on this service. Lawyers feel free to correct me, but my understanding is that they are only required to collect sales tax for state in which they have a physical presence (nexus). They are in CA. I live in TX. Legally, I may owe TX a Use Tax, which TX has trouble collecting because they have no income tax and hence no annual forms to file, meaning even the most honest people have no easy mechanism to pay this tax. In no case would I owe tax to any other state.

Has this happened to anyone else? I know it didn't happen to me last year.