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An obvious commonsense approach would be to exempt small businesses below some specified annual (or monthly) sales volume, for example, $1 million per year might be a good place to draw that line,
Well, doh, that's exactly what it is. One million and over.
Right. That's how it is today and that's how it will be in the future. The part that makes it seem like you don't know what your talking about is:
Why does that matter?
I haven't used any roads. I haven't created any smog with fuel. I haven't used the airport or any public transportation. I haven't visited any parks or any local Government funded establishment.
All I did was make a phone call or ordered online. I already paid UPS or Fed Ex for shipping. They pay all their local and State taxes.
Since when did Obama have the right to take over the internet, which isn't supposed to be owned by anyone?
Another way our constitutional rights are being dismantled one by one with this corrupt, communist, power hungry administration.
Watch out folks, e stamps are the next thing you'll be paying for on every piece of e mail you send & receive. The closing of hundreds of post offices & airport towers nation wide is just the beginning in this saga.
I haven't used any roads. I haven't created any smog with fuel. I haven't used the airport or any public transportation. I haven't visited any parks or any local Government funded establishment.
All I did was make a phone call or ordered online. I already paid UPS or Fed Ex for shipping. They pay all their local and State taxes.
I shouldn't be double taxed on that item.
You aren't being double taxed. Wlamart and Bestbuy pay shipping as well and when you buy from them you pay for their shipping costs, in addition to the sales tax that is.
What does your state law say? If your state doesn't have a sales tax this law doesn't affect you and if you just aren't paying sales tax... Well, tax evasion isn't really a good argument.
I haven't used any roads. I haven't created any smog with fuel. I haven't used the airport or any public transportation. I haven't visited any parks or any local Government funded establishment.
All I did was make a phone call or ordered online. I already paid UPS or Fed Ex for shipping. They pay all their local and State taxes.
I shouldn't be double taxed on that item.
I find it hard to believe that you stay in your home all day and don't use any state/city funded service ever.
Yes, I'm paying sales tax on my Amazon purchases now so I'm using ebay more. Eventually there will be no place to hide from sales tax. Right or wrong it ought I can't fault the logic of being consistant.
You aren't being double taxed. Wlamart and Bestbuy pay shipping as well and when you buy from them you pay for their shipping costs, in addition to the sales tax that is.
What does your state law say? If your state doesn't have a sales tax this law doesn't affect you and if you just aren't paying sales tax... Well, tax evasion isn't really a good argument.
I haven't used any roads. I haven't created any smog with fuel. I haven't used the airport or any public transportation. I haven't visited any parks or any local Government funded establishment.
All I did was make a phone call or ordered online. I already paid UPS or Fed Ex for shipping. They pay all their local and State taxes.
I shouldn't be double taxed on that item.
If you don't think it's fair to be required to pay a use tax on items you purchase from a merchant outside of your state, convince your state legislators to repeal the use tax.
This is not a new tax, and it is not a tax being levied by the federal government.
This is probably the most concerning. This article links to others pointing out various problems. This would indeed be a nightmare for small business, though I can see where they would try to make this into a uniform tax to attempt to deal with that problem. Our current system of collecting tax if you exist in a particular state seems just fine to me. To collect taxes from a state where the business isn't located seems baseless.
A link to bill here. They say it will exempt small-sellers, however, I still see no need for changes and once the foot is in the door it almost invariably progresses to further issues.
This article points out some issues. This is creating a whole new category of taxes "remote" taxes. Seems with that a new "jurisdiction" is also being created essentially?
Quote from bill summary in link listed in previous post.
"Defines "remote sale" as a sale of goods or services into a state in which the seller would not legally be required to pay, collect, or remit state or local sales and use taxes unless provided by this Act." There'sNothingFairAbouttheMarketplaceFairnessAct - Jeff ...
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CISPA and Internet Taxes
