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2013-03-23 Home Front: Politix

Senate overwhelmingly endorses states' collection of online sales taxes

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-23 09:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The legislation would exempt small businesses that earn less than $1 million annually from out-of-state sales.

For now anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-23 11:09|| 2013-03-23 11:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd like to see a debate on a sense-of-the-Senate resolution like this: "In general, citizens of the United States are entitled to keep the money they have earned." I bet it would go down on a straight party line vote.

Posted by Matt 2013-03-23 11:14|| 2013-03-23 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Generally, taxes are already collected with intrastate transactions [purchase, processing and delivery in state]. If the company has a physical presence in a state, taxes are already collected. What is not collected is multiple taxes on the same transaction across interstate lines. That's covered by Quill vs North Dakota. When some states moved to tax warehouse operation which are part of the retail chain [an order, order processing, and delivery outside of the state], several online operations have simply closed and moved their warehouse operations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-23 12:35|| 2013-03-23 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 What were proposing is not a new tax, it is an existing tax owed in all but four states, Durbin said.

Now tell us about the online retailers that dont have a physical presence in the United States. You cant exactly tax them nowright? Hmmmdo you think you may have just created an incentive for some US companies to pick up stakes? Welcome to Mexico City Amazon! Why thats brilliant Mr Durbin absolutely fuckin brilliant.

Posted by DepotGuy 2013-03-23 14:25|| 2013-03-23 14:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, if Amazon didn't want this to happen anyway DepotGuy. They are now big enough to take the hit. Any competition that might pop up isn't going to be big enough at first.

Posted by Charles 2013-03-23 16:05|| 2013-03-23 16:05|| Front Page Top

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