Many online companies sell products and there is no sales tax. Unfair to local businesses that have to collect taxes.
It's not unfair in the least. If you're selling products to customers outside of your state, there's no sales tax. If within, sales tax is applied. That's the way it has always worked, going far back to the mail order days. Think about it...
Very correct you are. When I order goods from a company in Texas via the internet I do pay tax as I live in Texas. If I order from a company out of state I do not pay taxes. This is unfair to the local brick and mortar stores. I love buying on the internet due its convenience and speed. The internet does have an unfair advantage over the local stores.
“Many online companies sell products and there is no sales tax. Unfair to local businesses that have to collect taxes.”
Apples and oranges. If they are located in that state, they have to collect taxes as well. If not they don’t.
If you bought something in Texas that was taxed in NY, but not in Texas, would you still pay NY the tax when you got home?
Silly rabbit, of course you wouldn’t. If you go to that store in Texas via the internet, you think they should collect and pay NY taxes? Oh, you do? Why?
In NY the law says as an individual you have to report and pay those missed taxes (NYS misses them) on your state tax return, LOL, HA!, HELLarious (sic) I wonder if they have actually collected one dime per that dumb law.
“DON’T TAX ME BRO!