[MediaMole]

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.

[Snoopers-868th]

You know what, all of this is just gone beyond the reasoning as you write it. I am sick of every single fee and tax that they add. I don’t much care who it helps or hurts anymore. I care about MY wallet just like business, the feds and the states care about theirs. Call me selfish.

[omega4412]

Think of all the different sales tax rates.

Also the difference in what is taxed. I've lived in states where clothing wasn't taxed, or books were taxed but textbooks weren't, or food wasn't taxed so flower seeds were taxed but vegetable seeds weren't.

[copaliscrossing]

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.

It IS a bonanza for some IT companies selling tax collection software/services. The state I work in has "joined" the Streamlined Sales Tax initiative so now we have to abide by the rules set by the SST. The company I work for decided to purchase the web based services of one of the software companies that provided the tax rates and reporting. Believe me, it is not cheap. I'm guessing it's around $27k for 600k transactions per year.

I had to integrate all of our software with the web based service and the tax rate charged to our customer is based on the destination of the product. We have a "nexus" (sales/service branch) in every state we ship to so if our customer is in California and we ship from our distribution center in Nevada, the customer would pay the tax rate for their State & Municipality. The service we subscribe to reports the transactional data back to us broken down by how much State and local taxes were paid. In some instances, there are 4 different taxes paid per item purchased. The service then reports to us how much we owe each state and municipality.

Frankly, I think it is a crock of crap. I was pi$$ed that I had to do the development work for our company on this project. It just made me more and more angry the further into it I got.