Posted on 01/14/2018 9:15:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if states should be able to collect taxes on internet sales, which would generate billions in revenue for local governments, but also raise the cost of online shopping for consumers.
Just over a quarter-century ago, the court ruled that a state could not force mail order catalog companies to collect sales taxes unless they had a physical presence in the state. Led by South Dakota, 36 states want the court to take another look at the issue, arguing that the 1992 decision was issued “before Amazon was even selling books out of Jeff Bezos’s garage.” Part of the court’s logic was that it would be too difficult for mail order companies to compute the widely varying tax rates among, and even within, the 50 states.
But lawyers for South Dakota said that’s no longer an issue in the digital age. “Advances in computing have made it easy for retailers to collect different states’ sales taxes,” they wrote in a court brief. […]
Congress has considered a plan to allow states to collect taxes on purchases made by their residents through out-of-state companies, but no legislation has passed.
Lawyers for the states said they’re losing nearly $34 billion a year because of the physical presence rule, though estimates from the federal Government Accountability Office said the figure is much smaller. …
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Internet sale tax collection is impossible.
Amazon and Walmart and Office Depot and such can easily collect state taxes on sales to sites with a specific state.
Ebay and other such sites where there are an infinite number of small vendors can not. I frequently purchase items on ebay shipped from Hong Kong and other such locations. It is not possible to collect taxes from foreign sites. This is especially true of the Etrogs vaunted tariffs
Perhaps that’s because you are buying through the FBA system, and the seller who is delivering things to Amazon has some kind of a presence in your state?
People don’t even understand natural born citizen.
It means one is naturally a citizen because one cannot be anything else.
If one is not born here of citizen parents then other citizenships, loyalties and allegiances arise.
Children of foreign nationals and the foreign born are exactly who the founders were excluding.
Good. I live in a warehouse State. I’m tired of subsidizing those who don’t.
“Subsidizing”?
Rather than calling for the elimination of these taxes?
There are some things, like the original understanding of “natural born”, in the Constitution that warrant debate and discussion.
But much of the Constitution is reasonably clear where the feds have clearly violated to the point where about 80% of the feds is unconstitutional.
It’s OUR job to do everything we can do to dismantle this unconstitutional 80% portion of the feds and restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
Cities in San Diego county impose sales taxes. It definitely influenced my choice of bookstore and restaurants. The El Cajon Harley dealer imposed sales tax based on street address for a vehicle purchase.
You can program a smartphone to charge the tax as it applies to the address. Remit the tax to the state IRS and they can distribute the correct amount to the locality.
Why should brick and mortar businesses be at a disadvantage over Jeff Besos’ Amazon. Heck, so many shops have closed I would tax Amazon double.
So when all the shops in your neighborhood close down because they are at a disadvantage to Amazon will we even be able to afford police and fire departments?
The Kenyanesian Usurpation was devastating.
We may never recover.
Agree and look how judge Roberts slid Obamacare under the rule of law by calling it something else.
That will basically cause small websites to shut down because they will not have the resources to determine taxes for the thousands of tax districts in the nation.
Eventually physical stores will hardly exist. Most of what we buy will involve online sales. In fact that is already the case for me except for food and sundries.
Thus they will have to allow taxation of the internet. It is just a matter of when.
There seems to be quite a bit of “they must pay their fair share” (with regards to retailers and consumers) in this thread.
Based on left-wing precedent, of course. Anything free market must be decimated.
I noticed that. There was a USA before the Marxism crept in, and we don’t have to perpetuate the Marxism or give credence to its perpetuation.
Quick google search:
In 2014, there were 9,998 tax jurisdictions in the US.
https://taxfoundation.org/state-sales-tax-jurisdictions-approach-10000/
Indeed so. Or force some into the “dark web”.
Yes, it is not fair for the B&M retailer. I have purchased guns locally at a higher price to simply support the local retailer. However, most purchases were online to cut out the sales tax. Ammo shipping costs versus local tax were always determined. But if the cost was close, why not take the front door delivery.
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