Tax on direct download purchase?

In budgeting for purchasing GalCiv next week (woohoo! :CONGRAT: ) and thinking about going with the direct download from Stardock, it occurred to me to wonder whether there will be tax charged on top of the $44.95 price or whether that price is all you way (not counting any potential S&H of course)?

In a somewhat related question, it is possible to take this downloaded file and burn your own CD if you wanted to save the 5 bucks for getting one shipped to you? After all, as I understand it, we won't be getting an actual printed manual if we buy direct and get the CD shipped, so if you have the capability to burn your own CD it doesn't seem as if you'd need to have an official one.
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This sunk pretty far down....I think I'll bring it back to the attention of Stardock people. :)
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I don't know about you guys, but I know here that if we buy something from overseas it's tax excempt...unless we pay customs tax but thats irrelevant in this case. If we buy from within Australia the tax is already included in the price....but then again we have one single "sales tax" rate country wide.
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As long as nothing with registered value arrives to you from overseas customs, can't tax anything. You may be "taxed" by your bank on foreign exchange rate though !
Myself I often purchase imports, and only when I got "big packs" of several games I have been taxed for VAT, the rest went through unnoticed (even if VAT should apply).
Obviously you'll be able to burn yourself a CD from your download (I mean nothing will prevent you from copying the installed games files on a CD :) ). It's nearly everywhere permitted to do this for backup purposes.

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Only orders placed from Michigan zip codes have sales tax charged as part of the order.

I can't speak to anything relating to shipping overseas or whatnot, see above for some comments on that.