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fAcEtIOUs
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RE: New York judge OKs Amazon Tax

NY isn't the only state looking to tax the internet. A major endeavor is underway by 22 states to greatly expand taxation of the internet:

»tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090112/···s_glance
There are 22 states participating in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, an effort to simplify the nationwide patchwork of tax rates. In exchange, some retailers will collect online sales taxes in those states even if the companies have no operations located there. Eventually, if Congress goes along, the states could be allowed to force businesses that don't have a physical presence there — such as online retailers — to collect sales taxes.

The states whose tax laws meet the standards of the streamlining group:

Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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Re: New York judge OKs Amazon Tax

Not surprised NJ is doing this. We have to pay for all of the illegals resident in the state somehow.
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probboy

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Re: RE: New York judge OKs Amazon Tax

I've never understood the argument that sales tax couldn't be collected by localities until "the nationwide patchwork of tax rates" is simplified. Somehow major retailers (I'm thinking someone like WalMart) are able to program their cash registers to figure out the myriad of tax rates charged by states, counties, and cities, so why can't Amazon? Also any telco, cable, or cellco company is able to figure out the correct taxes to charge, many of which vary by the subscriber's mailing address.

Most of these web retailers are selling physical products that need to be shipped to the seller. It would seem to me that after standardizing the delivery address, one could easily cross-reference that address with a giant list (most likely purchased from a third party) that says charge this amount of tax and remit to here.
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rcdailey
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Sure, but you also have to make sure that you comply with the specific reporting requirements for each of the fifty states. That's why standardizing makes so much sense. They could take it one step further and have the federal government collect all sales taxes and then redistribute them to the appropriate states. That would really simply things for the retailers.

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Kearnstd
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Amazon and walmart can, but the mom and pop place on the internet could never get the states reporting needs figured out. if a standard is in place then through things like Quickbooks they could handle taxes nationwide.

that said people selling crap on ebay will still likely never charge tax.
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