Probably will happen. To be honest, I can’t understand why it hasn’t yet! Though I am not complaining.
It puts the local store at a disadvantage.
Not necessarily when you figure in the shipping and handling charges on many internet orders.
In my case, the local store is NOT at a disadvantage because they don’t sell the items I purchase, such as antiques and collectibles, for instance.
Many of the new items I buy are also unavailable locally.
sounds like a problem taxing authorities need to address on the disadvantage side. how is it that taxing other people is going to make them brick and mortar stores better? a better solution would be to make it more appealing for brick and mortar stores to exist. perhaps the owners of the stores could have their taxes lowered, so that they could be more competitive.
why is that so many politicians try to tax other people prosperity? It just doesn’t work. maybe the good people of wyoming enjoy purchasing things over the internet. if they don’t want to buy the brick and mortar stores, maybe the government of wyoming needs to make purchase is a brick and mortar stores more appealing to the consumers.
Local stores refuse to carry what I want to buy in many cases. It’s not even a matter of price, it’s a matter of ‘cannot get locally at any price.’
I should be taxed because my local stores are run by morons and refuse to stock what I want?
Its a different business model that market forces should be sorting out. IF there is a disadvantage, then why should the government be the profiteer of sorting out the difference when the market would do, and is doing, that quite well. Besides, government does NOT need any new monies that they just spend on crap. They need to be shrunken down to a manageable size.
No, the local store can open a website and sell on the internet. I have both a small retail shop and a website. Very common for locals to purchase and pay online and let me know they will pick it up in person. I have "local pick up" as an option.
I also ship worldwide. Anybody with something to sell can do the same. Easy peasy.
who do you think IS the local store?
The internet has allowed stores that were once LIMITED to main street to branch out BEYOND the serfdom of main street.
Mom and Pop stores ARE the internet.
How so?? When someone shops online, they are paying MORE for shipping than they would for sales tax. Stock the items people want to buy and local stores will have no problem.
So?? Why should there be fairness??
Every "local store" in America sells on the Internet. This "protecting main street" BS is being done to squeeze more dollars out of people and for no other reason.