I bought online from B&H photo and saved a pretty good chunk of change.
They are desperate..They are trying to find every way they can to *Stick* it to the American people..
What’s next..Tax Garage Sales?
Taxes are bad — but, just hitting local retailers with them is even worse. Why should the likes of Amazon be (in effect) subsidized, at the expense of local businesses?
I must be doing something wrong. I always have to pay taxes on my internet purchases.
Lo and behold.
the more greedy the government gets, the more people it shoves over to the tea partiers.
their avarice is our net gain.
I don’t have a problem really paying Idaho sales tax if I buy something on Amazon. Technically we are supposed to declare purchases like that and pay sales tax anyways, it’s just that nobody ever does.
I’m gonna have a big problem if I have to pay California sales tax if the company I buy from is in California.
Gonna have a bigger problem if it’s a national online sales tax that is separate from State sales tax so I get dinged on the income of that money, the sale, and the sale again.
Biggest problem with all this though is it will shut down many online stores as after taxes and shipping it will be cheaper to walk into a store and buy the product, if it’s even available locally.
Good for local stores, but it’s going to be the small mom and pop websites or part time ebayers that get hit, not companies like Amazon.
“A bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. Congress”
Shipping charges make up for sales taxes.
Lead is heavy, Senator Blowhard.
Many states have laws on the books that actually mandate you report such transactions and pay the tax due with your income taxes. I don’t know anyone who does here in Arkansas - though this is mandated. This would be difficult to enforce.
Thus the reason the tax pigs want to force retailers to collect tax at time of sale. Can you imagine a fairly small internet retailer trying to keep up with and properly file/submit tax receipts, not just for 50 states, but for the thousands of counties, and the insane number of local taxes? Would drive many out of business.
More taxes, shut down small businesses - what a way to stimulate the economy!
In most states, a purchaser is still responsible for paying those taxes. This would force merchants to set up tax collection for hundreds, if not thousands of different tax rates and tax authorities.
Think of all the different sales tax rates. Some states have state, city and county sales taxes that vary within zip codes. Some even have special regional tax authorities on top of these.
It will be a bonanza for IT companies that sell tax collection software.
The more they spread the wealth, the more they need to tax us to death.
The more corrupt they get, the more they tax us.
The most painful thing about paying the sales tax is that it is also tacked on to the shipping charges. Thus more taxes are paid online than in B&M stores.
One thing online retailers do is generate numerous jobs in the shipping industry. Fed Ex and UPS both benefit dramatically from the millions of online purchases and they in turn hire additional personnel who in turn pay more taxes and pump more money into the local economies.
Right now shopping over the net is extremely efficient and fast. You can price check and accomplish as much in minutes as it takes hours to do locally without the fuel. Having to pay both shipping charges and local taxes will in turn put the online retailers at a distince disadvantage. But this is too big a cherry for these free spending states.
how about 'brick-and-mortar retailers ' not being collectors for the state in the first place ???
income, sales, property, 'usage', luxury, 'tourist' [for fast food] etc etc etc...
thats not even counting the built in 'fees' associated with most goober related exchanges...
enough already...
There is a constitutional provision against taxing interstate sales, so how can this be?
But Bobama/Pelosi/Reid have INSISTED that most of America won't be paying higher taxes. Imagine that.
...Government should shrink back down to its Constitutionally mandated size and leave the business of running your life to you.
But, I suppose that they would not want to put their government union constituency and the rest of the welfare system at risk - they do want to be reelected.
So they never considered the alternative - liberty.
translation, instead of other states we will be shopping OTHER COUNTRIES tax free.
bone heads and illiterates are writing these laws.