It now seems certain that a sales tax will be imposed on all on-line purchases by court edict; an issue that should be decided through the legislative process.
“Also ‘Justice Neil Gorsuch also voiced skepticism about the 1992 decision when he was an appeal court judge, describing it as having created “a sort of judicially sponsored tax shelter.”’
Another John Roberts in the making.
When SCOTUS rules in our favor we don’t call it a “court edict”. We only call it that when we don’t like the ruling.
Just sayin’.
Hey,I thought that when SCOTUS spoke it became “settled law”.Maybe we can look at abortion...or “automatic citizenship at birth” for kids whose parents have no legal connection to the US.Maybe we can look at counting wetbacks in the census to determine Congressional representation.
I like Washington's approach, responsibility is upon the state resident to declare taxes due for purchases made out-of-state, leaving the matter to one between the resident and their state.
Besides, if I don't have an office in that state, are they going to charge me and extradite me to answer for failing to collect a few dollars of tax?
Didn’t get past the pay wall.
Are these states which want purchasers of goods in their state to pay state sales tax on goods sold and delivered to them in the state which is collecting its tax pursuant to the state’s legislative enactments?
And Kennedy is a damned moron!
Seems that taxes should be due for the jurisdiction from where sold. I'm in Nevada, thus I should only be responsible for taxes when selling to a fellow Nevada resident, else for anything I sell from Nevada. Not my concern about where the buyer is. Consider, for me, that I sale online training. It doesn't have a home state and my buyer can be anywhere, which might change from week-to-week over an eight week course. Further, one of my instructors may not be here in Nevada. They too, might be traveling and teaching via the Internet from a different state or even country each week.
No, taxing Internet sales is complicated. If a no-tax solution won't work, then from where the company is located. Corporate havens like Nevada and Delaware win out, both small with little congressional representation, so figure that won't fly for long.
But please, don't ask me to collect taxes for states and cities where I do not have a presence.
The Supreme Court decided for all of us that marriage is no longer what it was for 5,000 years of civilization.
When did judges have jurisdiction on taxes?
The sales tax is such a terrible regressive tax it should be done away with. We also need to get rid of all taxes, repeal the 16th amendment and start over.
The only tax I would be in favor of is some kind of value added tax on manufacturing, with a higher value added tax on products manufactured outside of the US. Then the tax would be priced in when an item is bought, simple as that, and have much less civil tax enforcement. No taxes taken out from paychecks and taxes paid when something purchased.
It also frees Americans from the tyranny that comes from what we have now in place.
CGato
If we are going to tax the internet ... Each state should be required to publish a “source” and a “destination” tax rate. States get to set these rates as high or as low as they want.
Taxes collected would be based on the location of the recipient as the destination, and the headquarters location or shipping location of the seller. The two rates will be averaged and the averaged applied to the order and collected. The amount will then be split between the two states, source and destination.