Sales-tax break for Amazon hits snag in S.C.

[PocketChange]

The deal they struck with SC provides relief from charging or collecting sales tax. The problem now is SC requires them to send an annual statement and the consumer is to remit the taxes directly to SC. A few years back mail order cigarette buyers got hit with huge tax bills.. same is going to happen here.

Quote from 377OHMS:

If Amazon charges state sales tax I'll simply buy my products from someone online who does not charge state sales tax. I almost never buy anything from B&M stores in my state anymore because I don't want my tax dollars going to the liberal jackasses that run California. I would rather pay UPS/USPS/FedEx than see the state collect a penny but I usually manage to get free shipping.

What Amazon must do is to find a state that will "partner" with it, buy one of the many defunct Air Force bases that are found in every state and build a massive airport/cargo-terminal/distribution center to serve the entire country. They must stop doing business with "associates" in states that specifically target them for revenue. They must refuse to comply with any onerous regulations from states like California that want them to keep track of taxes etc.

If South Carolina doesn't want to play perhaps someone else does. Amazon can't go offshore because of US Customs. There is no business model for them except domestic operations.

The libtards can't create jobs or revenue so they must steal money through legislative means.

 

[soldsoldsold]

Quote from PocketChange:

The deal they struck with SC provides relief from charging or collecting sales tax. The problem now is SC requires them to send an annual statement and the consumer is to remit the taxes directly to SC. A few years back mail order cigarette buyers got hit with huge tax bills.. same is going to happen here.

WTF? So I have to pay sales tax to SC even if I buy from Amazon while I'm in another state?? Are they really trying to get away with that??

 

[PocketChange]

No idea... it's a real cluster fuck:

"Last week's late-night compromise in the Senate requires Amazon to include a clause in each purchase confirmation e-mail telling customers they could owe the sales tax to the state. The e-mail must include a link to the state Revenue Department. Amazon also must send customers a yearly tally of what they've spent, and specify they may owe the sales tax on their income tax returns. But that information will not be sent to the revenue agency, causing Haley to call the notification to shoppers meaningless."

SC will have jurisdiction over Amazon and can simply subpoena these annual statements for compliance verification and begin enforcement. NY hit cigarette buyers with $50/ carton tax bills on all out of state purchases after subpoenaing sales records.

Quote from soldsoldsold:

WTF? So I have to pay sales tax to SC even if I buy from Amazon while I'm in another state?? Are they really trying to get away with that??