As others have said, Tesla does not collect CA sales tax when shipping the cars to AZ. The only time they would is if the car was picked up in CA -- but since that is ~3% more expensive, we have the cars shipped to AZ instead (there may be someone that did Fremont Delivery, but I haven't met anyone from AZ that has done that yet). We then have to pay use tax to AZ when registering the car...
OK, never mind, I read more, the city tax isn't covered by reciprocity, so would always be in addition.
Anyhoo, as far as the bill goes
- 60 miles is inconsistent with the 75 miles for historic minority interest.
- with modern car shopping being Internet+test drive anywhere+Internet+get car, I think miles are becoming arbitrary.
- "a dealer" is vague; it should say "one of its dealers" as the bill says elsewhere; if this language is not corrected it could be a legal trap that prevents operation of factory stores until the bill is amended
- Even with correction, it's not that great for "factories" since the law limits advertising according to the consumer/lead. If you think of each dealer having a 60 mile radius dome, the factory would not be able to do any campaign that hits people in those domes, which would make marketing difficult, especially internet marketing. The factiry would basically be, very precisely, filling in the spaces outside the domes.
- Since Tesla doesn't have dealers they would be unaffected by the (corrected) amendment.