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> federal, state, sales, city, district

Really? I've never really been to the US, other than a couple of brief work trips, and that is astonishing.

Really! For some locations you need a street address to be sure you're collecting the correct Sales Tax for that particular type of product.

Also there are Sales Tax holidays where the rate of sales tax is reduced for a set period: https://www.salestaxinstitute.com/resources/sales-tax-holida...

Also certain customers are exempt from Sales Tax...

District is unusual.

There's no federal sales tax, but if you're selling internationally, there can be border fees of various kinds. State sales taxes are nearly ubiquitous. Large cities or counties might have a sales-tax addition for local funding.

Special-purpose sales taxes exist, infrequently: hotels are probably most common.

Sure, there are also excise taxes levied on different kinds of products (fuel and alcohol being the most common), fees (like disposal deposits on drink containers, tires, and the like) and just in general differential tax rates (certain kinds of foods are not taxed, taxed at a different rate or even, I’ve seen proposed, taxed by the size of container).

Aren't import taxes essentially federal sales taxes? Granted, they're applied long before the product sits in a consumer's cart.

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