[justjim]

Nobody, including me, wants a tax increase. However, there is one that I support. An Internet sales tax is needed in order to level the playing field for small business. All e-tailers should collect and remit sales taxes for the state where a Buyer resides. It's not fair to him/her who owns a small business in Smallville or Largeville who has to collect sales tax for the state and a large e-tailer like Amazon gets by without collecting any at all. This in my opinion should not be a political issue---it's strictly a matter of fairness. What do you think?

[janmcn]

Originally Posted by justjim

Nobody, including me, wants a tax increase. However, there is one that I support. An Internet sales tax is needed in order to level the playing field for small business. All e-tailers should collect and remit sales taxes for the state where a Buyer resides. It's not fair to him/her who owns a small business in Smallville or Largeville who has to collect sales tax for the state and a large e-tailer like Amazon gets by without collecting any at all. This in my opinion should not be a political issue---it's strictly a matter of fairness. What do you think?

Floridians will soon be paying 6% sales tax on Amazon purchases as soon as Hillsborough County commissioners approve the deal for them to begin construction of a distribution center in Ruskin. This tax increase won't require an act of congress and will create many jobs for Florida.



Battered Ruskin sees hope in Amazon warehouse | Tampa Bay Times

[rubicon]

Justjim: Let me be honest with you. I would not agree to a single penny of tax other than that which would be required to defend this nation from enemies foreign or domestic and additional amounts I deem necessary for the common good. Why? Because our tax system is riddled with greed, poor accounting, poor budgeting, poor estimating and a never ending appetite for more and more tax money that will continue with wasteful spending and/or placed in people's pockets for political favors.

The Internet tax is misrepresented because it doesn't recognize that states vary in laws and regulations and the internet tax is going to end up costing consumers. Keep in mind many states because of their irresponsible fiscal policies are in dire straits and are going to mine for more tax money anyway they can. what they won't do, like the federal government, is cut back spending.

Sooooo I keep repeating it is not my patriotic duty to pay my taxes as a defense against irresponsible spending

[KeepingItReal]

Originally Posted by justjim

This in my opinion should not be a political issue---it's strictly a matter of fairness. What do you think?

There are a lot of bigger fish than this to fry before the tax code is even close to fair..

[Patty55]

I think it will be an accounting nightmare.

[OpusX1]

The business's selling on the Internet do not require police protection, fire protection etc from the different states they are selling to except if they have a location in the particular state.
The delivery trucks that deliver your goods do pay a road usage tax as well.as mileage tax and fuel tax. All these taxes are paid by different companies but the ultimate payee is the consumer.
If you want to pay sales tax on items bought out of state each state has a voluntary sales
tax form, just keep track of your purchases and make a voluntary payment.
If a brick and mortar can't compete I doubt 5 or6 percent will save them. It is just the way it is in retail. How is it fair that Lowes and Home Depot put so many small hardware stores out of business? Why was it fair that Ford put so many buggy mfg. out of business? It's change, the one constant in business.

[DaleMN]

Better ask Grover.

[Bavarian]

People ordering by mail order from a catalog by telephone didn't pay tax.

[Bogie Shooter]

No place to get my buggy fixed.

[rubicon]

I will never understand why anyone would agree with anew tax or a tax being increased. People who play lotteries are in fact freely paying taxes. Lotteries claim billions go toward education. Has anyone notice a decrease in any educational institution anywhere in this country.

Federal state and local governments once found gambling to be illegal and lending itself to moral decay. Well they made it legal and it has led to moral decay but heck the government got their cut.

[JourneyOfLife]

Here is Florida's Dept Revenue rule on it.

FL Dept Rev - Use Tax on Out-of-State Purchases

Most states have some form of tax collection approach already for internet purchases.

[KeepingItReal]

Don't we wish the taxers were even near as prompt in paying their own taxes as they are about trying to tax more:

Federal Employees Owed $3.5 Billion In Back Taxes In 2011: IRS

[janmcn]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I will never understand why anyone would agree with anew tax or a tax being increased. People who play lotteries are in fact freely paying taxes. Lotteries claim billions go toward education. Has anyone notice a decrease in any educational institution anywhere in this country.

Federal state and local governments once found gambling to be illegal and lending itself to moral decay. Well they made it legal and it has led to moral decay but heck the government got their cut.

If you object to paying 6% tax when shopping on Amazon, don't shop on Amazon...simple as that. I, for one, will be happy to pay the 6% tax just as I do when I shop at walmart.com, or homedepot.com, or lowes.com. The governor and county commisioners all totally support this tax.

[784caroline]

Originally Posted by KeepingItReal

Don't we wish the taxers were even near as prompt in paying their own taxes as they are about trying to tax more:

Federal Employees Owed $3.5 Billion In Back Taxes In 2011: IRS

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99.9% of the federal employees mentioned in this article are people like you and I...they are not Congressmen. I would like to see the article about Doctors, plumbers or teachers...the average person for his/her profession.....the impact/result would be the same.

[Monkei]

Originally Posted by justjim

Nobody, including me, wants a tax increase. However, there is one that I support. An Internet sales tax is needed in order to level the playing field for small business. All e-tailers should collect and remit sales taxes for the state where a Buyer resides. It's not fair to him/her who owns a small business in Smallville or Largeville who has to collect sales tax for the state and a large e-tailer like Amazon gets by without collecting any at all. This in my opinion should not be a political issue---it's strictly a matter of fairness. What do you think?

I think you are 100 percent correct.