Amazon.com begins collecting California Sales Tax

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[pansgold]

After years of being a member of Amazon.com, I just CLOSED MY AMAZON.COM ACCOUNT after they agreed to begin collecting sales taxes for this blood sucking state.

I'll continue online shopping from OUT OF STATE VENDORS and PAY ZERO state tax and get free shipping. I get what I want and Amazon.com and Calistan LOSE!

[Gay State Conservative]

Why should I pay California sales tax on a purchase made in New York?

No,that's not the way it works.This article is about Amazon having agreed to collect California sales tax on all purchases *shipped to a California address*,not *all* shipments.For example,in the last few years I've bought electronics items from a couple of large retailers in NYC.No sales tax,either New York or Massachusetts,was collected on these puchases by these firms.If the items had been shipped to a NY address then NY sales tax would have been added.But because these stores haven't agreed to collect Massachusetts sales tax on items shipped to the state then the firms don't add it.This is an issue that has leftist government tax collectors nationwide screaming bloody murder.I mean...how *dare* a person living in a particular state be able to buy something WITHOUT PAYING TAX!?!?

Massachusetts and New Hampshire (neigboring states,one with an outrageous sales tax rate and the other with *no* sales tax) have had battles over this very subject...New hampshire having won all of them.

[TurboZamboni]

States look to Internet taxes to close budget gaps. (from June 2011)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/19/states-look-to-internet-taxes-to-close-budget-gaps/

“With sales tax revenue slumping more than 30 percent in most states between 2007 and 2010, lawmakers across the country are grasping for ways to collect those unpaid taxes.”

They aren’t “unpaid taxes.” , They are “unsustainable spending.” This the same kind of idiotic mentality that argues that “tax cuts must be paid for.”

And what will these same states do when collecting Internet taxes don’t close the budget hole?

Lawmakers need to make up their minds. Consumption tax or income tax. One or the other, but not both. The Collectivist appetite for thievery is insatiable.