Cali taxing internet ?

ohskigod

Incidentally. If the companies kept doing things as is and did not comply. Cali would have a hard time enforcing since they seem to have no physical assets in these states

Demiurge

California needs to cut spending. They can't afford to be **** what businesses they have left there which will lead to less jobs with an unemployment rate of 11.7% as of May 2011.

sucks2beme

Given where sales are going, The tax needs to be assessed by the buyer's state, not the source, since the product could come from anywhere.
That way if Texas buys 50% of their crap, the state gets 50% of
the tax revenue. So many people have gone on-line to purchase, this has become a problem. Tax base has been eroding at an alarming rate..
Yes, the free ride online retailers has had is going away.
Like it or not, either online needs to pay tax, or stop charging sales
tax all together for all sales. There shouldn't be a free ride to one, yet screw over the local guys paying local people and paying local property taxes.

jbooker82

Internet = Online catalog

You have always had to pay sales tax on mail order / online purchases. It is supose to be the consumers responsibility to pay the taxes to their local governmet. It isn't the responsibility of the seller from another state to collect the taxes for purchases made by customers that are not in the same state as the company.

Their was a spot on my Turbo Tax (nebraska income tax return) where they wanted me to pay the sales tax of goods purchased online / mail order.

With the shape the states are in now they are trying to scrounge up any dollar they can get and will be pushing the issue hard.

jbooker82

Wal Mart and other large retailers are pushing for this to happen as well. Amazon is giving Wal Mart a tast of its own medicine. Walmart didn't care about the mom and pop shops, but it is a different story now that walmart is being under cut by online retailer Amazon.

What they dont get is Amazon's prices are still lower than walmarts before taxes so people will continue to shop with them.

obieone

Well, they got what they want from the SC state legislature. Even though it was vetoed by Nikki, they had enough votes to override her.

Positive:, 1,100 more jobs for SC.
Negative: Unfair advantage over other businesses in the state.

Amazon doesn't get much of my cash anyway. I buy my music from Manifest records, an independent record store, that re-sells used music, for 1/2 price.
I get my ammo from PSA, because what I'd spend on shipping, I pay in taxes, so, no savings there.

jbooker82

I think it is great that wal mart is crying foul play when they do the same thing to others.

tonyb

jbooker82 wrote: »

I think it is great that wal mart is crying foul play when they do the same thing to others.

I could never understand the whole Walmart thing. The mom and pop stores, blah blah. The small stores don't carry the variety that a walmart does, and nobody prevents a small mom and pop store from expanding. The big fish eat the small fish, but the big fish weren't always big, they had to start small too. If walmart was to bite the dust because of online retail, so be it, they have enough coin to start their own online stores if they wanted to start something like another Amazon.

jbooker82

tonyb wrote: »

I could never understand the whole Walmart thing. The mom and pop stores, blah blah. The small stores don't carry the variety that a walmart does, and nobody prevents a small mom and pop store from expanding. The big fish eat the small fish, but the big fish weren't always big, they had to start small too. If walmart was to bite the dust because of online retail, so be it, they have enough coin to start their own online stores if they wanted to start something like another Amazon.

Yep and now wal mart is trying to take a little more money out of people wallet by pushing the online sales tax, in order to help force customers to keep it local.