@wecou  As I understand it, the core of the issue is that some states do not allow businesses to charge their customers for paying by credit card or what have you.

This leads directly to the next problem: While QB certainly could engineer a system that differentiates their 'charge-included' policy by state, they're almost certainly not going to do so. Why would they, when people are still paying for their product as-is?

I mean, they barely keep up with the changes they are legally required to keep up with.

In short, it would be the correct thing to do, but it's not going to happen.