Posted on 06/21/2018 7:58:37 AM PDT by Reno89519
Yep. This really won’t affect shoppers much. It will be a nightmare for online retailers. The only way to make it simple is to have some sort of brick and mortar presence in every state. This is similar to what Amazon already does.
It could even be a “proxy” address in an apartment building or something. But a small businessperson could not afford that.
I think what may happen is that we’ll see every state designate a single online sales tax rate, with filings done every half year. And there will be a single clearinghouse for these filings to save a lot of time and aggravation.
Hey, I was just thinking:
If you have a brick and mortar in any county in a given state, the only sales taxes that apply in that particular state would be those that apply at your location, right?
IF so, imagine a guy buying a small and cheap location in a low taxed section of every state, and then selling, for a low fee, the address for any small businesses that want to sell in that state. They then base their sales tax on all sales in that state on that location.
I’m imagining in my state of KY, where we have state, county and city sales taxes, some guy buying a $10,000 building in a very poor county, outside of city limits. He could then “rent” a square foot of the space as a KY location to any internet seller small business and all sales in that state could be based on the sales tax for that location.
The owner of the property would include, in the lease, his obligation to send to all of his lessees any notifications he gets regarding tax changes.
Just thinking out loud.
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