I work for an online retailer, and we collect sales tax when we sell/deliver to someone in our state. But that’s even a nightmare because in our state, there are 60 something counties and not all counties have the same sales tax rate.
I can’t imagine the amount of hassle it would be to do this on a national scale.
Who would the money be sent to? How would the money be distributed if it was sent to a federal agency?
I work for an online retailer, and we collect sales tax when we sell/deliver to someone in our state. But that’s even a nightmare because in our state, there are 60 something counties and not all counties have the same sales tax rate.
I can’t imagine the amount of hassle it would be to do this on a national scale.
Who would the money be sent to? How would the money be distributed if it was sent to a federal agency?””
You would have to file a tax return in every state, and I think New York city has their own tax.
The politicos think that if there are computers that can send a Rover to Mars, there are computers and software that will allow each and every business to collect a myriad of taxes, and somehow then you would have to know which county the buyer is in.
That would include towns that straddle county lines!!!!
Politicos don’t care what kind of nightmares they create for any business- large or small—they just want to find as many ways as possible to tax you.
We have more “takers/recievers than we have providers. The “takers” have voted persons of their image into office, and those persons are always pushing legislation that moves more and more to the “takers” side of the equation. 40+++ years of Welfare has given us a home-grown class of people who think they should NEVER work “for the man”, and they know how to have their hand out and scam in every possible program out there.
The “Providers” have some options... and those options are well covered in “Atlas Shrugged”.
That is at the core of trying to fix this economic mess.