Another tax

Bob111 · May 6, 2013

Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales

http://tbo.com/senate-passes-bill-letting-states-tax-online-sales-b82488540z1

i like this one-

Supporters say the bill makes it relatively easy for Internet retailers to comply. States must provide free computer software to help retailers calculate sales taxes, based on where shoppers live. .

now what? seller is going to have 50+ programms from each state to calculate sales tax? this is how it's sounds to me.
what a country US have became..rather than simplify -they are just making it worse and worse..

Opponents worry the bill would give states too much power to reach across state lines to enforce their tax laws. States could audit out-of-state businesses, impose liens on their property and, ultimately, sue them in state court.

Without more uniformity in the bill, he said, âbusinesses would still be forced to wade through potentially hundreds of tax rates and a host of different tax codes and definitions.â

JamesL · May 6, 2013

Maybe it's about time the states simplify their arcane tax structures and make the tax collection easier to collect and weaken the excuses of the online crowd. Seriously, why is the sales tax in NYC different from Nassau county and different from Suffolk and all different from westchester?

Would be nice tho to keep my local Best Buy for a while longer. Hate buying that type of shit online.

Catoosa · May 6, 2013

It would be far simpler for the seller and the buyer for the seller to collect and pay the sales tax of the seller's location.

tiddlywinks · May 6, 2013

I agree in concept. But this thing, like EVERY FUCKING THING THESE OUT OF TOUCH OUT OF CONTROL WASHINGTON ELITISTS (they don't deserve a "politician" title) DO, IT IS MESSED UP!

Instead, no exemptions whatsoever and collect state tax based on the ship from address. Now that's a fair playing field. NY will not and should not benefit from a case of soda sold from a GA business direct to a NY consumer. In the case of dropship from overseas initiated by a US business, the state tax of the location of the US business or the ship from US warehouse address. Sorry Amazon your warehouse expansion just backfired as far as taxes are concerned. Care to guess which states would become online retail havens? Maybe a few states need incentive to attract new online businesses and jobs? Besides WidgetWorld West already has all the necessary tax collection resources since it is a brick and mortar and online retail/wholesale business . If everyone shopping at WidgetWorld West is required to pay the same sales tax rate based on the ship from address not the ship to address, let the competition begin!!

$1M retail sales is 83.4K a month, less than 3k a day GROSS SALES!! And what of those states that tax shipping. Shipping becomes part of gross sales? Hell, Last time I had a garage sale, about 4 hours a day for 2 days, I grossed half that! I bet I could come close to averaging 3k gross operating as a regular vendor at a weekend flea market with 24/7 online sales. If you don't think this will affect maw and paw of Kettles R We, who operate a brick and mortar and have ebay and other online presence you belong in DC with the other out of touch assholes!!

loufah · May 7, 2013

Quote from JamesL:

Seriously, why is the sales tax in NYC different from Nassau county and different from Suffolk and all different from westchester?

Millions of people enter NYC every day. They consume resources (police, sanitation, street maint) and do not pay some of the taxes that residents do. Money for those resources has to come from somewhere - bridge tolls and a higher sales tax. Note that the sales tax is deductible on your income tax, so it may not be much of an issue for some people.

bonds · May 7, 2013

The stock market is up again this morning...

So is this tax a non market event? I would think it would be pretty big

Is the market saying it doesn't think the bill will pass the house? Or it just doesn't care? Only cares about money printing?!?!

loufah · May 7, 2013

Quote from tiddlywinks:

Instead, no exemptions whatsoever and collect state tax based on the ship from address. Now that's a fair playing field. NY will not and should not benefit from a case of soda sold from a GA business direct to a NY consumer.

States have a right to govern what goes on in their jurisdiction. If NY wants to impose a tax on soda, it shouldn't matter which factory or bottler or dealer or warehouse or overnight refrigerated truck stop the soda originated in or passed through on its way to the NY resident who is going to consume it. They should be able to ban soda altogether if they want. That's what states rights are all about.

The alternative - be careful what you wish for - is to have a uniform Federal sales tax, and then let the partisans in Washington decide how much of that money flows back to the individual states.

Bob111 · May 7, 2013

Quote from bonds:

The stock market is up again this morning...

So is this tax a non market event? I would think it would be pretty big

Is the market saying it doesn't think the bill will pass the house? Or it just doesn't care? Only cares about money printing?!?!

http://news.yahoo.com/internet-sales-tax-bill-faces-tough-sell-house-071331753.html

if it passes-then watch out for internet stores\sellers
but i still don't get it,why i have to pay to my the state,when i bought something outside of it? makes no sense

stevegee58 · May 7, 2013

It isn't "another tax", it's a tax that people were legally obligated to be paying all along and weren't.

The party's over so quit whining and pay up.

Bob111 · May 7, 2013

Quote from stevegee58:

It isn't "another tax", it's a tax that people were legally obligated to be paying all along and weren't.

The party's over so quit whining and pay up.

i don't have problem paying it(since i don't buy a lot of s**t), but DC and states have to demonstrate that they spending it wisely.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-p...27-5-113433142.html?bcmt_s=m#ugccmt-container

These are just a few of the 557 government programs and subsidies that the non-profit Citizens Against Government Waste says could be eliminated to save taxpayers close to $2 trillion over the next five years.