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  • Internet sales should be taxed, Romney says [Flashback to 2003, when Romney was young and foolish]

    01/27/2008 3:26:43 PM PST · by Tigen · 113 replies · 236+ views
    The Daily Free Press ^ | 4/25/03 | Dennis Mayer
    Massachusetts residents may have to pay sales tax on items ordered on the internet, although officials involved in the decision say nothing definite will be decided in the immediate future. A law signed by Gov. Mitt Romney last month includes the state in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, a group founded in March 2000 that discusses common problems with collecting sales tax, including those from internet sales, according to Tim Connolly, communications director for the Mass. Dept. of Revenue. The department will represent the state at the meetings, beginning with one held in Indianapolis on May 19 and 20. “What...
  • Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5?

    01/10/2008 9:45:18 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 80 replies · 243+ views
    News.com ^ | 1/10/2008 | Greg Sandoval
    Williams and Reznor were trying to follow the lead of Radiohead by distributing music online without the backing of a label. Like the British supergroup, Williams made the album available for free in one version but he also offered the option of buying a higher-quality digital download for $5. The promotions were groundbreaking and plenty of people predicted that a profitable outcome would convince many musicians to drop their labels and use the Internet to distribute their own artistic creations. And then Reznor ended the hoopla last week when he reported on his blog that 154,449 people had downloaded NiggyTardust...
  • CA: Internet tax police? Be wary of state board's impractical plan (to track "use tax" avoidance)

    11/30/2007 3:43:48 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 39+ views
    San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 11/30/07 | Editorial
    The Board of Equalization – which oversees collection of many state taxes – is one of the least-known important state agencies. But if the board gets its way, it could soon be both high profile and highly unpopular. That's because it wants the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to give it a staggering number of new employees – 325 – over the next three years to serve as tax detectives hunting down the businesses and individuals who buy goods on the Internet but fail to pay the state's “use tax.” What's that? You weren't aware that you owed the state...
  • Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise

    11/14/2007 9:36:06 AM PST · by AmericaUnite · 79 replies · 55+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | November 14, 2007 | JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
    New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer, who is moving aggressively to collect Internet sales taxes that have gone widely unenforced. Under a new policy, major electronic retailers...
  • eBay: Is the world's #1 marketplace in trouble?

    11/08/2007 12:42:42 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 95 replies · 90+ views
    Tech in Demand ^ | 8 November 2007 | James Mowery
    The company that lets you find “it” is now needing to find a way to stop Congress from ruining its business. Proposed legislation, if made law, is threatening to require all sellers of goods to disclose your name, address, and phone number to all potential purchasers. This would be a huge blow to the company and to the partners who sell products on the eBay site.In an email sent at 9:27 PM yesterday, eBay sent me a message that warns of legislation that could harm sellers: Dear [James],We wanted to let you know about proposed legislation in Congress that could...
  • Don't tax the Internet

    10/03/2007 11:56:51 AM PDT · by JZelle · 6 replies · 326+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 10-3-07 | Editorial
    Time is running out for the Internet taxation moratorium. The current ban expires Nov. 1, after which states and municipalities can swarm Internet users with new e-commerce levies (and they will). There is even talk of taxing individual e-mail messages. Congress should extend the ban. This widely popular legislation has been extended twice over nine years and has enjoyed wide bipartisan support. It flew through the Senate by a 93-3 margin when it was renewed in 2004. Everyone from Sen. Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, to bill sponsor George Allen, Virginia Republican, supported it. In the House, its 134 cosponsors...
  • States make little progress on system to collect Internet sales tax

    09/24/2007 9:57:56 AM PDT · by Graybeard58 · 26 replies · 221+ views
    Kansas City Star ^ | Sep. 23, 2007 | Jim Sullinger
    Meeting last week in Wyandotte County, officials from 22 states had hoped to move closer to their goal of collecting sales tax on all Internet purchases nationwide. At the end of the two-day meeting, they left empty-handed. Right now, many Internet vendors collect sales tax voluntarily at the urging of some states, but not all do. The patchwork of sales tax laws currently presents a burden on interstate commerce that courts have ruled unconstitutional. To solve the problem, several states — including Kansas — have joined the “Streamlined Sales Tax Project.” The member states are working to simplify sales tax...
  • Germany taxes the internet

    10/20/2006 2:57:58 PM PDT · by TommyC1 · 24 replies · 803+ views
    American Thinker ^ | 10/20/2006 | American Thinker
    Germany taxes the internet The power to tax is the power to destroy. The internet has proven rather a bother to many of those with power, allowing anyone with a computer to reach a worldwide audience. Now, our friend David Kaspar, of Davidsmedienkritik, a fine site keeping track of media and events in Gemrany, brings news of Germany’s plans to tax the internet. Germany’s 16 states agreed on Thursday to introduce from January 1 a licence fee of 5.52 euros (3.70 pounds) a month on computers and mobile phones that can access television and radio programmes via the Internet. Any...
  • Smokers may get burned in cigarette-tax collection

    07/19/2006 10:34:18 AM PDT · by SmithL · 54 replies · 1,153+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 7/19/6 | Andrew McIntosh
    Records from online vendors will help the state target buyers who didn't pay levy. California consumers and retailers who thought they had dodged sales and excise taxes when they bought cigarettes from out-of-state Internet and mail-order vendors are about to get smoked out. As part of a sweeping effort to crack down on such purchases, the state Board of Equalization has obtained 450,000 invoices from out-of-state Internet tobacco sellers showing untaxed sales to California residents over the past three years. It also has secured another 65,000 shipping records showing deliveries of 250,000 packages of untaxed cigarettes to Golden State residents...
  • New Jersey Wants To Collect Internet Sales Taxes

    07/05/2006 6:57:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 225 replies · 3,572+ views
    NBC10 ^ | Tuesday, July 4, 2006 | AP
    TRENTON, N.J. -- The budget dispute that closed New Jersey's government and threatens to shutter Atlantic City casinos centers on the governor's plan to increase the state sales tax. He says a 1-cent increase will earn New Jersey $1.1 billion. Lawmakers, fearing a voter backlash, either don't want to raise taxes, or want to use some of the revenue for other spending. But more than half of the money Gov. Jon S. Corzine wants to raise by increasing the tax is already owed to the state. And no one is collecting it. State estimates show New Jersey loses about $600...
  • Franco-German Alliance Pushes Global Tax Against America

    03/27/2003 2:04:39 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 40 replies · 875+ views
    America's Survival ^ | Cliff Kincaid
    A closed-door meeting of left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held on January 16, 2003, in Washington, D.C. to consider how to apply international financial pressure through a global tax on the U.S. Bruno Jetin, a representative of ATTAC France, spoke to the gathering and acknowledged in private conversation that his group works hand-in-glove with the French Communist Party and the "Socialist parties on the Left." A representative of the embassy of France in the U.S. was listed as a participant. ATTAC stands for the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. The International ATTAC Movement...
  • Sovereignty or subjugation: Tacking on an international tax

    10/10/2005 1:16:02 PM PDT · by cope85 · 10 replies · 737+ views
    enterstageright.com ^ | October 10, 2005 | Paul M. Weyrich
    Sovereignty or subjugation: Tacking on an international tax By Paul M. Weyrich The United States government is sovereignty. Thus, we Americans legislate, administer and adjudicate our own laws. Challenges to our sovereignty are emanating from the United Nations, the bureaucrats of which are interested in promoting a transfer of income and resources from the Developed World to the Third World. Difficult as it may be for Americans to imagine, unless our politicians have the courage to defend our national sovereignty, we may be shelling out tax money to satiate Big Blue's voracious appetite for revenue. Imagine paying an "international" tax...
  • Michigan Collects Hidden On-line Purchase Cigarette Taxes.

    02/20/2005 11:44:42 AM PST · by tryon1ja · 20 replies · 3,936+ views
    Channel 5, NBC, Saginaw, MI ^ | 2/19/05 | WNEM News Team
    If you are a smoker you remember too well when Governor Granholm pushed to raise the state’s tax on tobacco products from a $1.25 to $2.00. This increase forced many smokers to find alternatives. Some people quit, some people cut back, or found a cheaper place to buy. For many smokers they turned to the online vendor to purchase their tobacco products. It’s cheaper and best of all they don’t have to pay the $2.00 per pack sales tax. The luxury the internet shopper enjoys is the convenience of shopping at home. Products are less expensive and they think that...
  • FROM MONORAIL TAX TO STEALTH INTERNET TAX –COMING SOON

    02/03/2005 9:25:55 AM PST · by FreeMarket1 · 3 replies · 224+ views
    https://www.freemarketnews.com ^ | Feb 03, 2005 | by staff reports
    FROM MONORAIL TAX TO STEALTH INTERNET TAX –COMING SOONFeb 03, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby staff reportsIn King’s County, Washington, residents are discovering that a monorail tax may drag on for another 15 years. And in Washington DC, congressional committee studying tax reform, the Joint Committee on Taxation, announced it was considering expanding the three percent tax on telecommunications to cover all data communications services to end users, including cell phones, broadband, dial-up, cable modems, and DSL links. Taxes never die – nor does it seem in the United States these days that they ever get much smaller. Like a virus, taxes...
  • Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections

    02/02/2005 10:38:00 AM PST · by troll444 · 12 replies · 314+ views
    CNET NEWS.COM ^ | Fri Jan 28 15:50:00 PST 2005 | Declan McCullagh
    http://www.news.com/ Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Congress+proposes+tax+on+all+Net%2C+data+connections/2100-1028_3-5555385.html Story last modified Fri Jan 28 15:50:00 PST 2005 An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year. The committee, deeply involved in writing U.S. tax laws, unexpectedly said in a report Thursday that the 3 percent telecommunications tax could be revised to cover "all data communications services to end users," including broadband; dial-up; fiber; cable modems; cellular; and DSL, or digital...
  • WSJ: A National Telephone Tax? Governors are eyeing your Internet calls.

    12/22/2004 5:41:59 AM PST · by OESY · 25 replies · 883+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 22, 2004 | Editorial
    Much of the Washington press corps was preoccupied last week with the White House economic proposals, which are about allowing people to keep more of their money. Meanwhile, the National Governors Association was across town hosting a separate gathering that focused on just the opposite. The NGA -- along with its buddies at the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National League of Counties, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors -- desperately wants to tax Internet use. And they're hoping that Internet phone calls... will pave the way. You're forgiven if you thought this was...
  • The Web: Tax policies far from settled

    12/01/2004 9:16:24 PM PST · by kerrywearsbotox · 2 replies · 312+ views
    United Press International ^ | December 1, 2004 | Gene Koprowski
    By Gene J. Koprowski UPI Science News Published 12/1/2004 10:08 AM CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- President Bush is expected to sign the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act soon, which will ban federal and state tariffs on almost all online connections -- from dial-up to broadband -- for the next four years. Technology and legal experts told UPI's The Web that the bill, while important, far from settles the government's Internet policy."This foreshadows a more important debate," said Adam Thierer, director of telecommunications studies at the Cato Institute, a free market think tank in Washington D.C. -- The Web is a...
  • Congress Must Get US Out Of UNESCO, Again!

    08/18/2004 12:44:57 PM PDT · by MindFire · 5 replies · 433+ views
    Chronwatch.com ^ | 8-17-04 | Tom DeWeese
    CONGRESS MUST GET US OUT OF U.N.E.S.C.O., AGAIN!       By Tom DeWeese August 17, 2004   The nation laid Ronald Reagan to rest with a massive outpouring of respect and affection for the accomplishments of this great man. One of his most important achievements was to get the United States out of the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Yet it was just one year ago that Congress voted to undo President Reagan's work and authorized the nation to begin again to pay dues of $60 million annually to this corrupt organization. That's an incredible 25%...
  • Internet sales tax ambush?

    12/09/2003 10:29:25 PM PST · by kattracks · 2 replies · 110+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 12/10/03 | David C. Wyld
    <p>Over the past few weeks, every e-commerce entrepreneur and Internet innovator has been breathlessly watching the congressional debate on whether we should lift the moratorium on Internet sales taxes.</p> <p>Asking this question now is like asking Mrs. Lincoln about the play. To tax or not to tax will never be an appropriate question, simply because the net gains in tax collections (albeit in the billions) will never be greater than the cost to e-commerce entrepreneurship and innovation and the jobs and wealth produced through their efforts.</p>
  • Internet Access Tax Battle Heats Up in Senate

    11/21/2003 12:16:29 PM PST · by .cnI redruM · 10 replies · 114+ views
    Rueters ^ | 11/20/2003 19:40 | Rueters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator said on Thursday that he would hold up a massive year-end spending bill if it included a ban on Internet-access taxes that he and several colleagues fear would harm state and local finances. Delaware Sen. Thomas Carper, a Democrat, told reporters he would try to keep the omnibus bill from coming to the Senate floor if the ban was included in its present form, which he said infringed on the rights of state and local governments to raise revenues. "If we end up with just an awful ... provision I would certainly object to...