Boehner just saved already cash-strapped consumers tons of money!
Of course, you’ll still owe the sales tax on that TV. It just won’t be collected by the company selling you the TV, so you’ll have to pay it yourself.
Which does mean that it will be much easier for you to cheat on your taxes, since it is very hard for your state to figure out that you made a purchase and didn’t pay the sales tax.
So if you are the kind of person who only pays their taxes when they are worried about getting caught, and would otherwise break the law with impunity (like those rioters in Ferguson), then this is clearly a good thing.
I do not like the idea of an Internet sales tax.
However, if one is going to be rammed down our throats, I would like to see each state required to publish a single internet sales tax rate. This rate would apply equally, sales or purchases.
The the sales tax on the sale would be the average of the sales tax rate of the two states (shipper and receiver). With the revenue being split by the two states.
For example, lets say California has a 10% sales tax rate and Texas has a 4 percent rate. The tax for that sale would be 7 percent (10+4)/2 = 7 The 7 percent would then be applied to the purchase and each state would receive 3.5%
This would put pressure on businesses to locate their shipping centers in no or low tax states.
Well, one point for Boner, anyway.
This is totally unfair to brick and mortar stores. Internet sales should be taxed!
If internet sales will not be taxed, then neither should brick and mortar store sales be taxed.
That this would not be a level playing field is an outrage!
The solution is quite the other way around - Remove the onus of tax collection from the bricks-and-mortar folks and they will be better equipped to compete.
If a customer from Texas walks into WalMart in Ohio, they pay WalMart Ohio sales tax; they don’t pay Texas tax.
If internet businesses all decide to locate in the state with the lowest sales tax, then it’s not their fault some other states are charging too much tax.
Already in place.
There is a little form on your income taxes where you have to note any out of state on line buying that you did and pay your taxes.
What they wanted to do is make me their unpaid tax collector.
Wow!
Boehner wants a clear run to the end zone on amnesty.
The Obamacare shutdown ruined his chance at amnesty. The shutdown pushed amnesty in 2014 and then the cantaloupe Dreamers started flooding across the border 18 months after Obama’s amnesty decree.
“Boehner just saved already cash-strapped consumers tons of money! “
Plus the savings each week when we buy gas cheaper than a few months ago.
Californicator Land passed the internet tax, and it does cost us money for each purchase we make on the internet.
Thank you Republicans
democrats would have passed this internet tax if democrats had both houses, ditto for Amnesty, gun control , full socialism etc.
Plus he is starving the State Beast.
Priebus should be shouting and explaining this from the rooftops, not taking tea with Debbie Wasserman Schultz again. Thank you John Boehner! This is good.