No. of Recommendations: 3
The sales tax number is something that’s needed multiple times a day, and allows Big Brother to track YOU!
Unlike your credit card, your bank card, your Apple Pay account, your car, your phone company, your rental agency, Experian, Transunion, Google, Meta, Flock, dozens of other companies, aggregators like Palantir, endless darknet hackers, and any local police officer or government agency who cares enough to ask one of the above, since they're all selling, or simply handing over various forms of that data.
At least in the EU there are plausibly strong restrictions on what they can *do* with the data, much though the US keeps trying to get around that (with some success). That's the best privacy you're going to get, short of living in a cave and scavenging mushrooms and wildflowers to eat.
