States make little progress on system to collect Internet sales tax

Kansas City Star ^ | Sep. 23, 2007 | Jim Sullinger

[wastedyears]

Soon they’ll tax the air we breathe.

[Slapshot68]

Collecting sales tax on Internet sales is like trying to gather up all the planet’s sand with a colander.

[Graybeard58]

Only if you exhale, that's CO2 and that's a green house gas.

[Crazieman]

They’ve already declared the air we exhale a pollutant, which probably gives the EPA some sort of legal jurisdiction in the future to eliminate pollutants. If you get my drift.

[maine-iac7]

ping

[Red in Blue PA]

Futile-tax-collection ping.

[wastedyears]

Methane too?

[Sig Sauer P220]

Soon they’ll tax the air we breathe.

I’m sure Kansas will try to, if at all possible.

[sand88]

Futile-tax-collection ping.

I wish I could share your sentiment. I believe it is only a matter of time. The parasite class will stop at nothing in their evil quest to gain more and more of our hard earned income. I absolutely despise these parasites and their arrogance. They truly believe it is rightfully "their money."

[Publius6961]

Apparently (and fortunately), the united States have retained enough autonomy to make this a "problem".

Definitely between a rock and the hard place.

Decisions, decisions... allow greed and unrestrained taxation to continue locally or give that power to the feds?

Decisons... decisions...

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Frankly, I don’t understand a word of this since I don’t live in the US of A. (All though I am a US citizen, it is very foreign to me…) : )

Aside from that, though, can these folks move off shore and provide their services to US folks and elsewhere and by-pass all this crap?

Thank you.

[Gabz]

Many of the opponents of this nonsense were (or are) on the bandwagon to make sure all tobacco taxes are collected on internet sales.

Sorry folks, but what’s good for the goose is good for the gander....unless you oppose collection of tobacco taxes on internet sales you best not holler about tax collections on other internet sales.

[Hot Tabasco]

Collecting sales tax on Internet sales is like trying to gather up all the planet’s sand with a colander.

I'm not sure how it works but at least my state (Michigan) was able to obtain the sales records from an out of state internet tobacco outlet (Dirtcheapcigs.com). Armed with those records, the state treasury went after the buyers demanding all the applicable taxes. And if such taxes were not paid by a certain date, they promptly sent penalty notices equaling %100 of the alleged taxes due...........

[mysterio]

States make little progress on system to collect Internet sales tax

Good. Leave the internet alone.

[383rr]

Well, we told them so, AGAIN.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

YEAH! Tell ‘em, Doll! Bet none of the usual suspects show up in this thread, either.

[383rr]

I just had a round about this very subject with one a couple of weeks ago.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

They never learn, they’re one-trick ponies. Any discrimination, taxation, demonizing, etc; is ok, as long as it concerns tobacco. Unfortunately, it’s all going to come home to roost shortly. ;^D

[petercooper]

I love the little line on the state return where you’re supposed to voluntarily estimate how much sales tax you owe them due to internet purchases. Too funny.