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California Now Collecting Sales Taxes From Online Retailers
cbs2la ^ | 04/02/2019

Posted on 04/02/2019 7:35:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Starting this week, companies are now required to charge you if you live in California.

If you order something online from merchants with a brick-and-mortar store in California like Target or Kohls, consumers pay California sales tax. But buying something online from stores that don’t have an actual store in California, until now, didn’t charge a sales tax.

California has now closed that loophole.

The state law changed on April 1. Now, it doesn’t matter if an out-of-state company has a real store in California or not, online transactions

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; online; onlineshopping; salestax; tax; taxes
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To: jurroppi1

Outrageous!


41 posted on 04/03/2019 12:46:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: jurroppi1

The taxers are out there of control.


42 posted on 04/03/2019 12:47:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: zeestephen
:^) He knows it wouldn't pass. I'd be surprised if he could find a co-sponsor.

43 posted on 04/03/2019 2:11:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

So, how did they get around the “taxation without
representation” thing?


44 posted on 04/03/2019 10:00:07 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: DoughtyOne

It is out of control. I got the annual property tax assessment notice in the mail last week, they claim somehow in 2020 the estimated market value of my home will be 37K greater than it is now with no improvements and the taxable value of my home is 40K more than the previous year. They do this to decrease the impact of the FMV exclusion (homestead) and at the same time reduce the FMV exemption benefit. The net is my taxes always go up at least a few hundred bucks a year.

It’s insanity!


45 posted on 04/04/2019 4:58:33 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: jurroppi1

No matter how much they tax us, it’s never quite enough.


46 posted on 04/04/2019 6:06:05 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: BenLurkin
If you order something online from merchants with a brick-and-mortar store in California like Target or Kohls, consumers pay California sales tax. But buying something online from stores that don’t have an actual store in California, until now, didn’t charge a sales tax.

Well yea, that's the whole tax nexus thing.

California has now closed that loophole.

And how are they planning to enforce this? Sure, a bunch of companies will do it voluntarily, as it doesn't touch their bottom line, it's all charged to the consumer. But for companies that don't bother? If they don't voluntarily pay the tax, what is CA going to do to them? Nothing..?
47 posted on 04/04/2019 5:38:10 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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