One more way to retard business.
Properity - can’t have that! Tax it...
Can’t allow death to trump taxes!
How will a company doing business online be able to determine if the person buying is giving their real shipping address? I guess they’ll realize something is amiss when 95% of their customers give their address as Delaware - hehe.
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
It’s not about revenue - it’s about power.
Look for online sales to move off shore.
They’ll have to change the Constitution first.
Alright, if I drive to, say, Nevada, and buy something there, I don’t have to pay CA sales tax. Why should I have to pay it if I buy it online? I can see states charging a tax for their state for things sold online in their state, but this BS is ridiculous. The left is determined to kill off all business, some of the dumb a**es politicians actually believe they will get more revenue by doing this, many of them know it will simply cause less revenue to flow and it will hurt business. They are trying to trash our country boys and girls and be had better find a way to stop them and very, very soon.
I heard a presentation by the director of our state Retailer’s Association where he talked about the concerns of retailers when the organization was founded about 100 years ago. The retailer’s biggest concern at the time ...catalog mail order sales from Montgomery Ward being unfair competition because they did not pay local property or sales taxes. It is ironic that many of these retailers are still around while their nemesis, Montgomery Ward, is nowhere to be seen.
So, why don’t every online seller just tell the govt. no?
Here in Washington State, my local Costco always asks me if I live in Oregon. When I asked the clerk why she wanted to know, she replied that they don’t collect sales tax on Oregonians. Just thought it interesting that some businesses are not collecting taxes on people who are from tax free areas, or the opposite of this proposal.
This is about more than just taxes. Once this door is opened they will regulate all aspects of it including free speech/hate speech or what they deem so. “Commerce” has been the door through which all this socialization and “thought control” crap has been introduced, legislated and enforced.
I bet additional software will opens us up to more credit card security problems.
Who buys ice cream on the Internet?
There was a long standing battle between a former lawyer turned bar owner and the state of Maryland about the collection of taxes. Basically the bar owner argued that the state did not pay him to be a tax collector and therefore he did not have to collect sales tax. He never collected the taxes for decades and Maryland never took him to court for fear of losing.
This should run a lot of small companies out of business.