Posted on 03/28/2011 8:14:33 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham
The justification for sales and use tax is the benefit that retail stores receive from state infrastructure. Internet-based businesses receive no such benefit, and rightly follow the mail-order precedent that local sales taxes are irrelevant.
Go suck the life from some other business.
We'd have all the easy money we need.
Sooooo..... if California, or any state, wants to collect this tax, charge the seller for what is sold in said state. Too problematic, you say? Too bad. I have no sympathy for the tax collector.
Anyway, even if the tax is supposed to be on the one doing the buying (which I disagree with), maybe it should be changed and make the seller responsible. After all, he's the one earning something. I think tax should be on the profit earned.
I think it’s long past time that the newspapers in California paid their fair share of taxes. What’s the matter, don’t you guys want to support the welfare state?
Cough it up!
No illegal immigrant living in California, working for cash, living in government subsidized housing, eating government subsidized food and receiving other government entitlements should be required to pay online sales taxes when spending their hard-earned cash online. Only legal citizens should be required to bear the full brunt of the cost of running that government./sarc
did you forget the sarc tag?? you can't be that naive. The parasite class (i.e. government workers) live to destroy this Republic. Government at all levels is out of control and seeks to rule over us. No government will ever "have enough" money.
The only way this Republic will survive is for government at all levels need to reduced drastically in terms of size and authority.
EVERY single problem in this Republic has at it's root government. I applaud anyone who legally avoids taxes. I applaud Amazon for playing hardball with these parasite States that seek to suck more of our hard earned income and distribute it to those who have not earned it.
These guys are for real. I have been getting letter after letter stating that my business has been identified as one that has probably run afoul of their tax decree. I thought it was a bunch of BS but a week or so ago I got a letter from the Tax Police on one of my very occasional( one product every 2-3 years) suppliers that had submitted a copy of an invoice from last year of less then $100. The TP demanded that I acknowledge my debt and pay it immediately. I admire their tenacity if that is what they will do to get $8.50 in taxes paid
When out-of-staters come to California and buy things retail, they really shouldn't have to pay sales tax, correct? It's based on where one lives, not where one buys things?
So where is the big effort by California to make sure these people get their tax refunded? Where is the "morality" in the state keeping revenue it doesn't deserve? It all evens out in the end.
Blood-sucking tyrants have always abused people's sense of fair play and "morality" to separate them from their money. When that doesn't work they send in men with guns and clubs.
I recommend Amazon.com. You can literally find anything you want there. I never pay shipping, either.
BTW, what steps have the Tax Police done to collect money from the most blatant tax cheats around? I am talking about drug dealers and prostitutes? I would love to see the EDD cruising the neighborhoods in a big van trying to collect from them babies.
“I recommend Amazon.com. “
Thanks... I may be overly cautious or paranoid, take your pick. However, I don’t admit to anything “anonymously” that I wouldn’t admit to the IRS... if you get my drift.
You could keep all your money. You just have to lie on your income tax form, like you say you would if you bought things online. You could also find an employer who paid you under the table, and you could print up a fake tax-exempt letter to use when you shop so you could avoid all the sales tax.
All of these actions of course are illegal, and all have some risk of being caught.
Without knowing what your definition of "I can" is, it's hard to say what level you are really willing to go to. Did you must mean breaking laws where it is unlikely you will get caught?
The issue can be easily resolved. Audit every California taxpayer and collect the sales tax for every out of state purchase. They have the authority to do this now, but of course it would result in a complete replacement of currently elected officials at the next election...which would be good.
Starve the beast!
If I buy a Superman comic book in Kali-fornia (no,I don’t read comic books) and buy a pair of X-Ray glasses by mailing a money order to the X-Ray glasses company, if they aren’t located in Kali-fornia, do I have to pay their sales tax? If not, then I should not have to pay sales tax on out-of-state internet purchases.
I do and you just did!
I agree with you 100 percent. To think otherwise is to assume that the state of California has complete legal jurisdiction over all other legal jurisdictions in the United States as well as complete state control over its citizens no matter where they go.
Great question!
Let me play your game “D.A.”. Do you ever drive faster than the posted speed limit? Do you close the cover on a pack of matches before striking match?
Smiles to you!
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