Posted on 03/06/2018 2:50:44 PM PST by Kaslin
Not by zip code. Sales tax is by county and city location.
“No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.”
Article I, Section 9
If states want to tax interstate sales, they need to call for a Constitutional convention and amend the Constitution.
I have a small company, in from Nevada I sell to people potentially in all 50 states. I have trouble of doing my own returns here in Nevada, the challenge to have to file returns in 50 states for small business is overwhelming. I don’t have the time or staff to do that. We sell directly, not through Etsy, eBay, or other sites that can take my money charge me a fee and take the money out
“They need a way to balance the books.”
Open up the 1960 books and read how to run a state more cheaply.
They had prisons and public schools back then.
I’m tired of my meager income being drained to pay pensions of over $50,000/year.
Trump acting like a Democrat again. Gotta have those taxes. Why buy things without sixteen taxes on everything?
Another challenge, is that some states charge tax on services, what others charge that’s only on goods. A lot of Internet commerce, is services. That means we either become an expert in state by state taxes, or hire an accountant that is. They would have to carve out an exemption for small businesses grossing under $5 or $10 million, maybe even $25 million, to avoid putting businesses out of business or creating a whole generation of tax scaflaws.
The states have made a mess of things by creating different tax rates for different areas of their own states.
Try pensions of 80 to over 100K a year.
Trump has done nothing to stop the savagely high medical insurance deductibles imposed by Obamacare, has raised taxes on the middle class, and now wants to stick it to people trying to buy and sell online.
All of this is completely Unconstitutional I might add.
Oh bloody hell. Are the people in the White House off their meds?
Not a good week for freedom
That's not what people's pay slips are saying.
And you want him to do something (unconstitutional, apparently) "to stop the savagely high medical insurance deductibles imposed by Obamacare"?
Obamacare didn't impose those deductibles—they are simply a natural result of what Obamacare did to the insurance market. And you can blame Congress for failing to act on that. The President has done just about as much as he can EO-wise on the issue, and has worked his butt off to try to get Congress to do something as well.
And now your whining that he wants to "stick it to people trying to buy and sell online"—simply by beginning a conversation about what mega-corps like Amazon are doing to game the system?
Take your ridiculously self-indulgent #NeverTrump armchair quarterbacking elsewhere. You Nervous Nellie prognosticators have been proven wrong in your apocalyptic predictions at virtually every juncture for the past two years—both domestically and in foreign policy.
"All of this is completely unconstitutional", you might add? Yes, you might add that—if it were true—but it's not...
Congress gets to determine taxation on interstate commerce.
Correct. And the President isn't even allowed to broach the topic?
I seriously doubt that the President will be usurping Congressional taxation powers, inasmuch as the entire Democrat minority—as well as the GOPe majority— are looking for any chance to claim he's exceeding his Constitutional bounds.
After all, isn't the thesis around here that Congress wants to weaken this Swamp-draining President every way they can?
To advocate for State usurpation of Congressional authority? Are you serious? When Trump made that crack about gun confiscation last week, I let it slide. I'm now starting to wonder about his grasp of the Constitution.
Unfortunately there could be other zip codes within a ZCTA - the zip code of a ZCTA is just the dominant zip code. I am not sure how many exceptions there are.
Good idea, though.
sales tax information for every zip code in the country
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Such a product already exists. And it is more precise than zip code.
Sales tax can vary within a zip code because of various boundaries, and other issues.
It would cost-prohibitive for many small businesses.
I know. If only there was a way for state’s to cut spending so that revenues from in state sales were enough to fund the expenses they are earmarked for.
Don’t mind me. I get crazy ideas.
Yes, that is my understanding of this mess.
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