Soon they’ll tax the air we breathe.
Collecting sales tax on Internet sales is like trying to gather up all the planet’s sand with a colander.
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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...
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.
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.
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.
A real world example: A couple of years ago, I bought a factory-refurbihed iBook. It was available from the Apple store online, and also from a small reseller online. But because Apple has stores in Georgia,they were required to charge sales tax. The other company wasn't.
So I saved a hundred bucks. And a thousand-dollar sale, instead of going to a retailer who pays taxes and creates jobs in my community, went to a company that does the same in California.
It's not a simple question of paying taxes or not. It's a question of a current tax system that discriminates against brick-and-mortar small businesses, which are still a major driving force in the economy, even if the dot-coms get all the hype.