Good. Even the playing field. Tax everyone equally.
I don’t know about others, but my state and local taxes over the past 20 years has gone up WAY MORE than my federal taxes.
I guess the states and cities simply have very, very, good lobbyists in DC.
$50 million out of a total of $2 Billion. Yeah, that’s a good reason to add $billions in regulatory overhead to stores in other states to collect taxes for you.
Sorry, but the playing field is already level... I do a few online sales and collect tax in my state just like any other store. If someone from South Dakota comes to my store (or any other store in my state) it’s not up to us to find out what the tax should be and file a return for every municipality in the country.
So what? The rationale behind charging sales tax for businesses in state is that they receive the dubious "benefits" of the local and state governments. An out of state business receives no such "benefits" why should they charge tax?
Just because a greedy government doesn't get to extort a fraction of some transaction is not sufficient reason to start the practice. If the state isn't getting $50 million, then that's $50 million that the citizens are keeping in their own pockets. Anything that leaves money in the citizens pockets rather than the government's coffers is a good thing.
All Democrats and most Republicans seem to think that everything of yours belongs to the government and you're only allowed to keep what little fraction you have as a generous gesture from government. They think that the citizens' role is to provide the government with unlimited funds to squander on things that benefit bureaucrats and politicians.
No reference to the Constitution in the article.
“No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.”
Some states used to double tax, but the SC shut that down in in 2015 Comptroller v. Wynne. Scalia and Thomas dissenting.
IF there is going to be an Internet sales tax, it should be a source / destination split at the state level. In other words, each state publishes a single source tax rate and a single destination tax rate and distributes the taxes collected appropriately.
That structure will work to drive businesses to ship from states with a low tax rates.
The Supreme Court is an entity of, by and for government. As such, it seldom rules against government interests.
I’ve got an idea, hows about the states shove the tax up their a$$?
I’m so sick of liberals and their freaking taxes!!
So SCOTUS is going to reverse itself on years of precedent and stare decisis because South Dakota is crying waaaah....waaaaaah.....waaaaah over lost revenue?
Sadly I think it could happen.
Define a transaction as happening where the buyer lives and some will grumble what if they buy stuff online while not at home or that they have a PO Box address in a State with low sales tax.
Define a transaction as happening where the buyer is and suddenly you have another justification to track everybody.
Define it as where the seller is an merchants in high sales tax States will howl.
Best to do nothing and leave things as they are. It is not the basic function of a Citizen to fund their government so it’s okay if government does without.
Government at all levels takes more than enough now in taxes.
How is an online business supposed to collect taxes? From where the item is sold from or where the buyer is located?
If it is where the seller is located look for the $0 sales tax states of Delaware, New Hampshire, Montana, and Oregon to have a HUGE influx of online retailers come in.
I have an online business doing under $250k in revenue and this would really hurt my ability to sell much less the cost to collect and figure out what should be taxed where at what rate.
I never understood why this is an issue. Mail order sales tax rules are old and well established, they apply just as much for web based ordering systems as any other.
HOW ABOUT STOP THINKING OF NEW WAYS TO TAX PEOPLE
South Dakota is a haven for credit card usury.
If South Dakota wins, then banks claiming to only do business in South Dakota charging usurious rates to residents of other states will come within the scope of the usury law of other states.