How do you impose a tax on a company that doesn’t have a physical presence in a state? Amazon,etc should put all their warehouses,offices,etc in..say...North Dakota.So then,at the most,only orders shipped to ND will pay sales tax.
Yes - a presence in two states though so the order can be shipped from either one to avoid the tax.
Just wondrin’ - what about sales taxes from Canada, Mexico, PR, Bahamas, or hell the moon?
> Amazon,etc should put all their warehouses,offices,etc
> in..say...North Dakota...
Amazon is building warehouses in major cities as we speak. They ended their opposition to online purchase tax a while ago:
How Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery Plan Will Kill Your Local Stores
http://gizmodo.com/5925387/how-amazons-same+day-delivery-plan-will-kill-your-local-stores
“How do you impose a tax on a company that doesn’t have a physical presence in a state?”
Its called a destination based sales tax. Its absolutely immoral; but, its been around for a long time.
Its generally hard to enforce...except for big ticket items.
For example, I used to live in Riley County, Kansas...but the ford dealer where I bought a car was in Pottawotomie County, Kansas. When I tagged the car, Riley county said ‘pay up’ for the differential in their (higher) sales tax and Pottawotomie sales tax.
I likened it to a government sanctioned shake down racket.
What’s supposed to happen is if they have a presence in the state of the buyer they charge sales tax. If they don’t the buyer is supposed to self report and pay the sales tax on their own. All this got solved ages ago with mail order catalogs, somehow the internet just chose to ignore it.