Yee Gods! I hope you wrote that as sarcasm, because I Do Not OWE anyone any tax. This run away government and states are putting taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes.
I voted. I did not buy from them. There are other ways. I still got my goods, I just got it from a different place and I did not pay tax, and I paid a lower price, and I paid less shipping. I voted with my check book.
If there is a way around taxes I will find it, and so will anyone else that makes their own money. The new and blooming economy in the US is the underground economy, it is flourishing, and will continue to do so. There are many options to doing business than with a tax supervised store. Much of the economy in this area is barter. I trade garden product for things I want.
I will mow and bale the road side grass then sell it to a horse person for cash. I gave a guy $200 for an old truck he had. I fixed it, now it runs. I will trade it to someone else for guns or something I want. He will have to tag it and insure it, not me. But I will gain and there will be no tax. Thats the way we roll.
I’ve been an indirect tax specialist for 15+ years, and your elected representatives (apparently, since I don’t know what state you’re in) voted in a sales and use tax scheme. I don’t know what state you’re in, but if your purchase would have been subject to sales tax had it been transacted in your state, if you knowingly do not file a use tax return to report the tax on items you imported or had imported into the state and on which you have not paid a sales or use tax to another jurisdiction, you legally owe the tax.
The same is true for barter. Just because you bartered for a transaction does not mean there are no tax consequences, although your state may have an exemption for an “occasional” sale.
What you are describing is using cash and the internet to *evade* taxation. Evade = illegal.
While I am 100% behind tax reduction, I am not for violating the law to evade paying what is legally due. I am for the legalization of some controlled substances. That doesn’t mean I support criminals who sell the stuff illegally.