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Illinois wants web shoppers to report, pay online sales tax
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| Mar 9, 2011
| FRANCINE KNOWLES
Posted on 03/09/2011 5:57:14 PM PST by Freedumb
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Typical Illinois DemoRAT scumbags. I'll make them a deal, I'll report all of my online purchases subject to a use tax when these bastards report all of their bribes and illegal payoffs on their 1040's.
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posted on
03/09/2011 5:57:18 PM PST
by
Freedumb
To: Freedumb
"yeah like that's gonna happen....so here I am fillin out this here tax form"...dummies
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:00:41 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Freedumb
Kinda have that already, at least in GA. If you make an online purchase and there is any brick-and-mortar presence in the state, the store itself assesses the sales tax.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:01:01 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(NPR is the ACORN of the media world.)
To: Freedumb
Jenny and pals gave us this one in MI years ago. Nothing new, just another Dem gimmmie all ya got.
To: Freedumb
Chicago thugs are no doubt ordering the puppet in the White house to implement similar restrictions.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:01:09 PM PST
by
allmost
To: Freedumb
A use tax is a form of sales tax that applies to purchases made outside Illinois, but used in the state. The tax, which is 6.25 percent of the purchase price, applies to online purchases made from businesses that dont have brick and mortar locations in the state and that dont charge Illinois sales taxes, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue.Aw crap. I'm wrong. These guys are going for money they have no right to go for.
God, I'm glad Illinois is dust on my shoes.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:03:49 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(NPR is the ACORN of the media world.)
To: Freedumb
“This year, for the first time, taxpayers are being asked how much they owe in so-called use taxes on the Illinois 1040 tax form. “
Funny, we don’t have that form here in Texas. Ooops, I forgot, we also don’t have a state sales tax.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:06:32 PM PST
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: BobL
Make that INCOME TAX, here in Texas.
(but even our sales tax is less than 5% on big-ticket items, like cars)
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:10:05 PM PST
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: Freedumb
The way the thing is worded it sounds like it could apply to any sort of thing you walked into a store and bought in the next state and presumably paid their sales tax for there, and then took home with you.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:10:31 PM PST
by
wendy1946
To: BobL
We’ve had use taxes in California for years.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:11:38 PM PST
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: Freedumb
The only regret I have about quitting smoking in August 2008, is that I can no longer screw Illinois out of taxes by buying all my cigarettes in Missouri.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:15:04 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: Freedumb
They've had this question on West Virginia's tax return for years. The amount that is actually paid is on the low end between slim and none. I believe that the first year it was on the form, only $80,000 was collected. It has been such a failure that they don't even push it anymore. The first couple years, they put out ads and pamphlets saying taxpayers were resonsible for keeping records and reporting use tax on all internet and mail order purchases from out of state.
Lets just say, like most West Virginians I've never paid a cent. Did I owe any? I plead the fifth! (now I'm heading over to ebay and Amazon.com)...
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:15:41 PM PST
by
apillar
To: Freedumb
So does Illinois provide services for those businesses outside of Illinois? don't be silly, no. Illinois public employees are running a protection racket. The protection is for their compensation. The middle-class needs to rise up, demonstrably.
To: Persevero
“Weve had use taxes in California for years.”
And here in Texas too. But the difference is that we don’t have to “report” our income and state taxes paid to Austin. What’s going on now in high-tax states, like California is an extra line on their 540 Form (in their case), that reads like the following:
“Use Tax: 25 Use tax. This is not a total line. See instructions, page 8 . . 25”
Then you sign the form under penalty of perjury. In non-income tax states people can (legitimately) plead ignorance...in California, you better not get caught, because they have your signature.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:42:45 PM PST
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: Lazamataz
Same in Kansas. That's why I buy used books from out of state vendors. No tax charged or paid and to hell with the Kansas dept of revenue.
The vendor I like best is somewhere in the west and they employ people with mild mental disabilities to package and ship the books I order. I think it is a win win situation for everyone and the state can't waste the tax income like they do everything else.
Use tax is an unconstitutional tarif.
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:49:33 PM PST
by
webboy45
To: webboy45
That is a very interesting argument that I had not heard made before. Has anyone had any success with it?
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posted on
03/09/2011 6:55:37 PM PST
by
Defiant
(The One must become the "One and Done".)
To: Freedumb
Typical Illinois DemoRAT scumbags. I'll make them a deal, I'll report all of my online purchases subject to a use tax when these bastards report all of their bribes and illegal payoffs on their 1040's. I didn't think conservatives were of the opinion that is is OK to break the law, so long as someone else is breaking the law.
To: Doogle
"yeah like that's gonna happen....so here I am fillin out this here tax form"...dummies
Well, we know that some democrats are tax cheats that refuse to pay their share; but most americans do what is legally required. The problem here was that people didn't know they were legally required to pay these taxes.
The state is making a good move by bringing it front and center, so that the citizens who follow the law aren't being burdened by higher taxes because of others who, by ignorance or law-breaking, haven't been paying their legally required taxes.
To: Graybeard58
Even though you quit (congratulations!), you can still pick up smokes for your friends when you go over to MO for gas.
Don't know which feels better . . . helping a friend or screwing Springfield.
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posted on
03/09/2011 7:40:35 PM PST
by
Boojum
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