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Posted on 05/16/2008 8:49:39 AM PDT by lilylangtree
Olympia--Starting in July, retailers will start charging sales taxes on Internet customers in Washington.
About 1,100 online retailers have agreed to charge the tax to avoid being sued by the state. The tax is based on where the customer lives. Retailers have to identify 350 tax districts.
Coming to every socialist state soon. New York already started, Illinois and New Jersey can’t be far behind.
You could have used google news to find the same general content at a site that doesn’t charge a fee for viewing.
All coming from Gov Haywire who considered taxing toilet paper and shoes.....Who is she going to tax when all that’s left in Washington State are Indians and unemployed old hippies?...
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I don’t understand what all the “hoopla” is about.
I own a business in the State of Texas that sells on the internet and there is nothing new about selling and collecting Texas sales tax for sales made to non-exempt customers in Texas. It’s no different than selling from a “bricks and mortar” business here in Texas.
The Texas law states that a sale made to a person or business within the boundaries of Texas shall have the sales tax collected unless that person or business furnishes an exemption from sales tax. If a sale is made to a customer outside the boundaries of Texas, no sales tax is collected unless that person or business has a physical presence within the state of Texas. It does not specify the delivery method or method of making the sale.
These laws were in place long before Gore invented the internet ;-)
I’m sure that most other states have these laws in place as Texas has done but now are trying to reign in sellers who do not comply with the laws as they are written, and have been written long before internet sales.
In state sales always needed sales tax. You make a sale in the state, you owe the tax.
The question comes when it goes from retailers to Ebay. Also when they want to slap their state sales tax on out of state sales (ie. the buyer does NOT live in the state). Or if they want to levy a different tax just because something was sold on the internet.
Good luck enforcing that one.
How would they know if I ordered something on-line?
Monitoring my on-line transactions? Opening my FedEx mail?
I think what it means is that if you sell something to someone in Washington, you have to determine which of the 350 tax districts they live in within that state, then charge them the appropriate sales tax. You must then process the paperwork and send the collected proceeds to Olympia(?). If you choose not to do this, the state of Washington will sue you (and they probably won’t use a Texas court).
HA....We’re moving to Oregon.....at least there is SOME benefit....
It’s the company you PURCHASE from that “monitors”.....
I refurnished most of my living room & entertainment center, via the internet and saved well over $300 in tax, and shipping was free.
That’s the “hoopla”!
Now shall we discuss the variable rates you have to pay to drive in the new car pool lanes, ranging from .25 to 6.oo depending on the traffic and the hour of the day. Yikes! We have enough to worry about.
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Yes. I believe that it used to be that were you sold FROM was the rate that was charged. Charging based on the destination gets worse.
Now extrapolate that to include out of state sales and apply a similar policy in my home state, Texas. Would I have to pay Washington AND Texas sales tax on my package I order? Would the tax be divided? Would I pay a rate based on the sender’s location, my destination, or the entry point from Washington to Texas?
Imagine having to master sales tax processing for hundreds of counties in “57” states. And having to FILE that sales tax with EACH state you collected it on behalf of. California would probably also want you to pay other state taxes on that money.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
They only get 10-12 in-state orders every year, so spending the $2000 or so to get the software updates to deal with this just doesn't make sense. So WA customers will no longer be able to order online ... they'll have to wait for someone to figure out their tax jurisdiction first.
The nightmare is that in 2-3 years, he'll be forced to do this with more states ... I hear there are around 2000 jurisdictions in NY. More than half his sales are international, and eventually we'll probably have to start dealing with the VAT too.
These morons running government don't realize just how much of a cost this is for small companies. It's so frustrating (especially since he asks me to deal with all tax documents ... arghhhhhh).
The difference is this is a “destination-based” tax ... you don’t charge sales tax from where you are ... you charge it based on where the customer is. We have 350 taxing jurisdictions in WA ... we now need to code every customer and charge THEIR appropriate rate, and submit the locale codes when we pay quarterly sales tax.
Illegals. Remember they get in-state tuition and free health care all in the name of diversity.
:) Bye bye, E-Bay!
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