source: https://archive.org/stream/montgomerywardca1920mont
Posted on 08/25/2016 10:49:55 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
A top House Republican [Bob Goodlatte (RINO, Va.)] will release a new proposal in coming days that attempts to resolve the long-running dispute among retailers, state governments and online retailers over how to tax purchases made across state lines.
... sales would be taxed according to the tax base of the retailer and a single tax rate chosen by the consumer’s state, a Judiciary Committee aide said.
So, for example, an Ohio company shipping a pair of pants to Maryland would use Ohio’s rules for taxing clothing and Maryland’s tax rate. Currently, that seller only collects taxes on the sale if it has a presence in Maryland.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Bureaucrats live for taxes - and love them more than their wives/sweethearts.
They’re no different than gangsters always looking for new ways to shake down citizens.
Just for starters...
Doubt (hope) this will go nowhere. Brave souls this close to their election. And everyone is up.
More smoke and mirrors from the GOPe.
Actually, they’re quite different from gangsters - gangsters have to worry about being caught and imprisoned, professional pols do not.
Nice summary of the useless GOP!
“The next time the Democrats control Congress they’ll pervert this into a national sales tax. Guaranteed.”
Would shock me if that was their ultimate goal. Back stabbing sell outs...and the few that are not are powerless? to do anything about it?
i meant ..it wouldn’t shock me.
These taxes are already on the books. In every state that collects a sales tax, I can almost guarantee there is also a use tax. The use tax was designed for the very purpose of taxing items that "come to rest" in the state where the buyer resides, but where no sales tax was collected because the transaction didn't occur at a traditional brick-and-mortar business. The use tax is often the same rate. It may be called something else, but it's there.
If you buy something online or even mail order from a catalog, you're supposed to calculate the use tax and submit it to your state on your state return.
It was designed to co-exist with sales taxes, to even out the burden on brick-and-mortar businesses. Mostly the states would go after the big businesses (Medical equipment was the big one in the late 90s early 2000s) because the money was there to go after, but the tax applied to residents buying stuff from out of state and having it shipped in, as well.
There's no reason to add an additional tax to the books to cover something that's already there, but mostly unenforced.
The GOP is the dead party.
> an Ohio company shipping a pair of pants to Maryland would use Ohio’s rules for taxing clothing and Maryland’s tax rate
The federal government is modifying state tax laws. Taxes collected in Ohio would not be at the rate specified by Ohio law, taxes levied in Maryland would not be applied per Maryland law.
This is more Republican jackassery.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
They just don’t learn. This is what we are up against
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A bill like this seems designed to favor the large companies who complain about competition from small retailers that do not charge out of state tax. As if the little guy is harming the likes of Amazon and Wal Mart? Instead of making it simpler for the big companies, they do as government always does and just makes it harder for the little guy. Another small business destroying bill paid for by big business lobbyists. Just incredible. GOP is useless.
I oppose this in principle but just to prove the point, they could have proposed requiring out of state transactions to pay the sales tax in their home state. I do not favor that idea either, but at least that would not dramatically increase compliance costs for the little guy. Asking the little guy to file 45 tax returns (5 states don’t charge sales tax) every year is nuts. And then what, small businesses open to 46 tax audits (including IRS)? Just awful. I’m so tired of laws and regulations placed on business by people who never tried to run one.
Right. The worst that will happen to a professional pol is they get hired at 5x the pay from a law firm, lobbying firm, or consultancy.
Gravy Train!
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