It really isn't. These people are stuck.
999 karma · joined January 11, 2012
Now, both pipelines have been blown up. It doesn't make any sense for it to have been Russia.
In this case, these are platforms that don't target a local community specifically, so it does make some amount of sense that the number is based on the population as a whole.
To answer your question though, you pay tax to the state it is delivered to when ordering from Amazon.
Note: it doesn't have a royalty