Maybe they think they can collect on large items like TVs, computers, and other expensive electronica.
That was my first thought too. In order to go back to 2004 and every item you ordered on the internet would be daunting and a huge job. There would be no way that you could honestly complete this without either ensuring that you over estimate or you under estimate. Either way, you will not get it right.
Think any one saved their receipts? This is one law that ain’t gonna see a dime of money for the IL treasury.
Pitch forks, torches, tar and a decent supply of feathers would seem to be in order.
As if Illinois didn’t already have enough Criminals. LOL
Sick. And they try to sell it as “amnesty.”
Disgusting, greedy, despicable bastards.
This could easily serve as a perfect example of the idiocy of the political mentality. On the other hand, there are so many examples these days that one can pick and choose. Government hacks, self-important bureaucrats, and organizational control nuts, tax-and-spenders, closet communists, and what have you are spinning out of control, and no one in a position of authority seems to care or be willing to do anything about it. Under Obama, the United States has become something more reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the bad old days of the Cold War than of the free nation into which one was born.
Simple, there were no sales prior to this year.
Then delete all of your online sales records... and claim it was a virus (Stuxnex, anyone?).
And thus, the state won’t have any records one way or the other. If they push it, you can ask for their records, for yours are now ‘lost’.
Care to guess whether they have your records? (I think not.)
This isn’t anything really new; one was supposed to pay a “use tax” to the state, but few did. If you did pay this tax, it would count.
Taxes are such wonderful things to commerce! /s
I am from Tennessee, but have not been in the USSA for the last seven years.
I never have, and would not even know how to pay sales tax that was not collected by the seller, online or offline.
How many states have consumers filling out sales tax returns?
In Tennessee, I filled out quarterly returns as a seller, and I was to report any items that I bought for personal use, but there were no sales tax returns for consumers.
Get one of those prepaid cards to use. The states are getting records from major banks, not prepaids.
Illinois has nobody to blame but themselves for the people they elect - or allow to assume office fraudulently.
There's a work fill desk job that can be terminated right now.
Since when does every gobmint dept need a "media spokesperson"...?
There's a work fill desk job that can be terminated right now.
Since when does every gobmint dept need a "media spokesperson"...?
Not long ago, and just a very short time after Bloomberg raised taxes on cigarettes by a hefty sum, there were quite a few New Yorkers being sent nasty letters and heavy fines by their state for purchasing cigarettes online. Bloomberg used the Jenkins Act to obtain purchaser information from the vendor and went after those purchasers. Of course, noone paid much attention when smokers took a hit - after all, they were nasty terrible woeful smokers and deserved to be taxed to death, right? How dare they try to cheat New Yorkers of all that potential blood tax money by purchasing their cigarettes online! Well, the precedent was set and, just like bailouts and elections, precedents have consequences, too. The Jenkins Act applies to cigarette sales but I'm sure there's some other obscure law on the books (or one that will be created) that would allow a state access to its citizens’ out-of-state-purchase information - if the citizens of that state sit on their hands and allow it to happen, that is.
Good thing I never buy anything online!
Heck, I don’t even know how to use a computer!
;-)
I don’t think of them as “online” purchases but “undocumented” purchases.
Why does the Government need to get a cut of everything we buy... and a cut of everything we spend... AND a cut of everything we earn.. and THEN charge us tax on the gasoline we buy to go wherever we go to buy things (to give them a cut of), and THEN charge us for the permission to drive the car that eats the gas that takes us wherever we go to buy things (to give them a cut of).
And all we can do is complain here on the internet (which they tax), or die (after which they tax us).