The Ramifications of Congress's Internet Sales Tax

ATR ^ | 2012-08-01 | Kelly William Cobb

[Lumper20]

I do not suggest breaking laws, but; this is the worse anti small business and anti consumer damn bill in some time. Home Depot and other large stores already taxe us for Internet sales at the local rate as they have a physical location in the state and also in this county. This bill is totally a bunch of hogwash. I see the foreign Internet sales types winning until Obama puts a VAT tax on us. This WY Senator has a lifetime of Gov and corporation work, and; add the NG. He has never owned a business. He has lived off us most of his life as his daddy’s shoe business was not his style. Vote him out.

[Figment]

Fools like Alexander are 100% stupid on this issue. If they force taxes for state to state then consumers will go OUT of state.

In TN they already do.There is a tax on food in TN (instituted when Alexander was governor), folks regularly go to other states to grocery shop. TN borders more states than any other and for many it is a viable alternative

[justa-hairyape]

This would be an absolute nightmare for a small business. When you file sales taxes for a state, you are required to open up an account with the state. The state will expect a quarterly report filed on the sales in the state. Even if there was no sales to that state. If you file that report late, they could administer fines. Had to pay a quarterly fine once to a state that I had no sales in just because the return was filed late.

And then you add on the fact that the world economy is collapsing, wars are breaking out all over, terrorist attacks are occurring daily on the planet and you can see that worrying about filing a quarterly tax statement with each of the 57 states would be almost impossible. From what I could tell, the way the tax collectors work, we could be living in bunkers during a global nuclear war, and the tax collectors will still expect on time filing.