Posted on 03/11/2015 6:58:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator
Same with Ohio. They have an actual form. I doubt anyone has ever filled out that form. If they have, they are stupid.
Um, yes, Florida DOES have a state sales tax, and the individual counties, many of them, have added a penny or so on to it.
I don’t see how it’s screwing everyone else, Florida has had a state sales tax for as long as I’ve been buying things. It’s nothing new just because of Amazon.
Florida has a sales tax. They don’t have an income tax.
Up north in Maryland they used to pull over your vehicle coming back from Delaware with big ticket items like washers/dryers/furniture.
Amazon building warehouse in Se Wisconsin just north of Il state line. The sales tax was started after facility opened in Wisconsin.
Oh goodness....such desperation.
Well for one thing i was confusing State Tax with Sales Tax which was dumb on m end......still not fun getting taxed on Amazon when the Government already has a ton of money coming in.
Agreed! We’re in Florida and order household stuff from Amazon all the time. I was ticked when they started charging us sales tax.
As we are in Florida.
I am glad that I am not the only one.....I was sounding like a whiner.....lol.
No, you’re confusing taxes on internet access with taxes on purchases bought over the internet.
When the internet began, states started salivating at the thought of adding sales or telecommunications taxes to your bill from your ISP. The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act stopped those taxes (while grandfathering some states which had begun the practice). Check out Wikipedia’s article on Internet Taxes to learn more.
You can buy product by calling the company, or by ordering from a catalog through the U.S. mail, or through the internet. In all three cases, if the company you’re ordering from has presence in your state, you will have to pay sales tax on that purchase. You don’t escape the sales tax by ordering through the internet instead of ordering in some other fashion. And, if the company does not have nexus (a legal presence) in your state, you will owe a use tax to your state - essentially a sales tax on your purchase that you report to the state.
Nothing has changed re internet taxes. The only thing that changed is that you reside in a state in which Amazon has a legal presence. They’ve been collecting sales taxes for years and years in the states they’ve had nexus with.
Your right I was confused. I thought we were fighting for no taxes at all on the internet. I actually would rather have a telecommunications tax on my cable/internet bill with all items purchased over the internet sales tax free. Why do we care about such a small tax on a cable/internet bill.....what is it going to be a couple bucks. We are spending a couple hundred a month on internet purchases (depending on how much we buy). I can’t believe that is what we are trying to stop....a little tax on a bill. Good grief if I had known that I wouldn’t jump up and down when it doesn’t pass.......I thought it was a chance to save Americans real money.
I was confusing it with a state tax....I thought Florida (when I moved here) was tax free except for Property taxes. I am finding that to not be true. I thought Maryland was a tax state. Florida is beginning to give them a run for their money.
The Internet Tax Freedom Act stopped direct taxes on the internet itself.
But, as you have discovered, companies still collect sales tax on purchases made over the internet as long as they have a presence in your state. If the company doesn't have a legal presence in your state, they are not obligated to collect the sales tax. You, instead, owe a comparable use tax to your state.
You should know about another bill which has been introduced in Congress.
As I said, you owe use taxes on purchases made over the internet if the selling company is not obliged to collect sales tax on that purchase. But, since most folks DON'T report those sales, states miss out on millions of dollars of taxes owed to them. They can't force outside companies to collect that sales tax. The bill introduced in Congress would obligate larger interstate companies to collect the sales tax for states in which they do not have a legal presence.
If you're a law abiding taxpayer purchasing product over the internet, that should make no difference to you because you are already paying the use tax to your state.
If you're a retailer selling product on the internet, you may have something to object to. The proposed bill, though, excludes the smaller retailers (if I remember right, you have to have $1 million in interstate sales) and requires that computer software be available to help with the many taxing jurisdictions.
just wait until after “net neutrality” comes to fruition.
Get ready for the tax after tax on your internet bill just like on your home phone or cell phone bill.... I expect there to be 20-30$ worth of government taxes on the internet by this time next year.
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