Tax on iPhone

If you do not live in the US, you can not buy from the US Apple Store. Your question has no meaning since you can't do it anyway.

IF you live in the US and you make a purchase in the store, sales tax is calculated based on the price of the item you're purchasing and the tax rate for the city and State you are in. If you purchase on-line, it's calculated based on the tax rate at the point of delivery.

Sales tax will be charged based on the address to which the iPhone will be shipped.

You are aware that you will not get any service from Apple, should that be necessary, for a US-sold iPhone in another country? And that you'll probably need to pay VAT and/or import duties when you bring the iPhone into your country? For these reasons it usually works out much better if you buy the iPhone in your own country.

Regards.

That is just the price of the unlocked iPhone, that is not sales tax. How much you pay for sales tax depends upon where you buy it and is computed when you complete the transaction.

No, that is not the sales tax, the unlocked phones are $50 higher.

You cannot buy the iPhone from the Apple Online store and have it shipped out of the country.

I would suggest you not ask your aunt to try to smuggle in an iPhone. The penalties for failure to declare are often substantial.

Suit yourself. I really could not care less what sort of trouble you might get yourself or your aunt into.