Internet sales tax?

"Death and Taxes"

I know New Hampshire is against it. We would have to collect sales taxes for all the other states (except Alaska, as i recall) even though we don't have a sales tax of our own.

Amazon has charged me sales tax on my orders the last few weeks based on my location.

All I can say without going viral.

It seems appropriate for a business to collect the sales tax for the state they occupy, just like any other business in that state (if that state requires a sales tax). Collecting taxes for every different state/county/city jurisdiction is nearly impossible from any practical sense.

Would I have to collect sales tax for professional services for a client in a state that required it? I don't know how many states require it, but I sure don't want to give my free time collecting a tax for them.

If they want the taxes, let them provide an environment that will entice the business to relocate to their own state.

I have a hard enough burden collecting payroll taxes for them. Leave me out of it, I say.

JBS

> I have a hard enough burden collecting payroll taxes for them.

"If they wanted me to be their agent, they'd have to pay me, and I want a badge."
-Vivien Kellems

I don't buy much stuff online...so it doesn't matter to me.

IMHO, I don't think there is anything new about sales tax due for remote purchases by residents of a State that collects sales tax. It's just that only a very small percentage of folks claim they make the purchases.

I understand one of the arguments against the internet sales tax says Mom and Pop Ebay type businesses somehow can't handle the "big accounting like big retailers".

I say if Mom and Pop can handle sales orders over the internet using a computer, surely they can handle the "big" bookkeeping with something like QBooks.

Maybe we are trying to adapt an old tax model to the modern world.

I think the property tax is outdated too. It made sense in an agrarian society where people used their land to make a living but now most people simply live on their land.

> If Mom and Pop can handle sales orders over the internet using a computer, surely they can handle the "big" bookkeeping with something like QBooks.

If the 'Mom & Pop ' stores fit this.

"Any online store that makes more than $1 million annually in online sales would have to send taxes back to the states where their goods are delivered, based on the rates required in those jurisdictions."

But the physical presence and footprint of an internet based business is much less than a brick and mortar. Thus it shouldn't need much tax collected to govern, regulate, and protect it.

The new system cuts the government off from a revenue stream, but also gone is the reason for the revenue stream, no?

Stephen

Unfortunately no. It boils down to the government needs money, (not so much governing it would seem) and internet tax is a source.