This will be ridiculous to implement. A huge burden on the internet companies. To keep track of each and every county’s tax rate? Even within this state, most places get the tax rate wrong in different counties, much less all over the nation.
Osten is responsible for federal state relations for the nation’s 50 state legislatures with regard to the regulation of the communications industries, including technology and advanced telecommunications concerns. He also staffs NCSL’s Executive Committee Task Force on State and Local Taxation of Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce. In this capacity, he has responsibility for sales tax simplifications, telecommunications tax reform, and business activity taxes.
Prior to joining NCSL, Osten served in the administration of President George Bush (the 41st) as director of the Office of Government Affairs and Public Information for Food and Consumer Services in the Department of Agriculture. Before joining the Bush administration, he was chief of staff for the assistant majority leader of the New York State Senate, Sen. Jay P. Rolison, Jr., of Poughkeepsie, and previous to that position, he was committee director for the Senate Banking Committee.
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Amazon and eBay may become tax collectors
As states get less and less money from their tax bases, there is more pressure than ever to begin to take a piece of e-commerce sales. That could turn Amazon (AMZN) and Ebay (EBAY) into tax collectors — and make shopping online more expensive and less attractive.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/04/19/amazon-and-ebay-may-become-tax-collectors/
This will strike a nerve, so I don’t see it happening. OK, they might try it, but they’ll be beaten back. Another highly visible political loss for Obama would be good for America.
Well, that should neutralize the un-president’s tax cut and then some.
It’s been at an end for some time, it’s called “use taxes”, it’s just that they haven’t been enforced.
How many times has the phrase “in a little noticed move” shown up in the first sentence of press releases lately? Isn’t the mainstream media supposed to “notice” these things?