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Forum Dad
 United States
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Taxing and over regulating is a business killer. Yep, New Jersey chased us right to Delaware. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1662 Posts |
Lobbyists hired by ebay and Amazon will have much more influence than any amount of names on a petition. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1158 Posts |
Taxing local sales and not internet sales kills local and small businesses. This is actually good for the country. Internet sellers have had an unfair advantage in so many ways which allows them to be the price champions.
And in every state I'm familiar with, tax is required to be paid on internet purchases, they just don't do a good job enforcing it. So just look at it like now you might be forced to follow the law.
For typical person-to-person transactions, sales tax should not be required any more than it would if you bought a pair of old skis off your buddy.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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You know, if there really IS a bill in Congress, then the "contact your congress-critter" bit is a lot more effective if you list the bill number.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Google internet sales tax. Looks like the bill was tabled in the House. As it's written it only applies if you have $1,000,000 in annual sales.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's too bad. I don't love paying sales tax, but they need to level the playing field and collect what it due. Many localities are missing out on revenue they are entitled to by law, and that just means we will all make up the shortfall on property taxes, etc, while giving the biggest internet companies a huge competitive advantage to further destroy local stores.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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That's too bad. I don't love paying sales tax, but they need to level the playing field and collect what it due. Many localities are missing out on revenue they are entitled to by law, and that just means we will all make up the shortfall on property taxes, etc, while giving the biggest internet companies a huge competitive advantage to further destroy local stores. ahhhh Very small local mom and pop stores 'round here ARE in the same actions. That is IF they care to do it?  Even I sell a single Eisenhower Peg Legs... sometimes.  IMHO there is already too much ebay, Postage, Paypal, shipping, insurance etc., going on NOW   Then there is an issue, when the item is RETURNED.  Or lost (stolen) in the mailEdited by Domain555
11/18/2014 4:07 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Private sales do not require sales tax now and they wouldn't on ebay under any new law, either. We are talking actual retail businesses. And returns are easy, just return the tax along with the purchase. Internet sales costs are nothing compared to managing a retail brick and mortar store, so I fail to see how that should exempt retail businesses from collecting and paying tax for web sales. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If it is tabled then it doesn't make any difference. However; as to the nuts and bolts IF it came to be. Then any sane bill would require ebay to collect the taxes. Otherwise you are requiring someone in Ohio to send taxes to, potentially, the franchise tax boards of 50 states. Not going to happen. The tax authority in Oregon is not going to have any right to investigate and fine a guy in Tenn for selling a single $.99 cent book. So it would almost require that ebay collect the taxes and send them off to the various agencies. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1158 Posts |
That's the downside of doing business in 50 states with 50 different tax laws. Perhaps we could reform tax law into a single national sales tax. Since that is not likely, previous bills have set a minimum sales level before the rule applies so that you'd be big enough to hire an accounting staff before you'd need to worry about.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It isn't just 50 states....it's every county inside those 50 states as well. For example FL sales tax is 7%, but when we file our sales tax report we break it down to 6.5% state sales tax and .5 county sales tax, and the county part varies from county to county.
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Moderator
United States
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It isn't just 50 states....it's every county inside those 50 states as well. Truth and more! Here is SC the nominal sales tax is 6% and each county can add a local option tax of 1% (my county does not). Also, counties and municipalities each are allowed to add another (voter approved) percentage for special projects (my county recently rejected one this past election day for road improvement). So, the sales tax in SC can be 6%, 7%, 8%, or 8.5% depending on what county and city you are making the purchase.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just more proof that tax law in this country is overly complex and broken. I don't have a perfect answer, I just know that its not fair to a brick and mortar store to tax a sale at a local store and ignore the billions in sales that now occur on the web. According to some estimates, 2/3 of sales will be online within the decade.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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very easy answer is a national sales tax like every other country in the world. In Canada we are required to collect and submit taxes on our ebay sales and have been for years. Taxes are just part of having a civilized society. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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April 15 is the deadline for most Americans to file their Federal individual income tax returns. Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. In 1913, due to generous exemptions and deductions, less than 1 percent of the population paid income taxes at the rate of only 1 percent of net income. The main reason the 16th amendment passed was the rate was low (1%) and only the rich rich rich paid the tax |
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Posted 11/16/2014 10:37 pm
