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Internet sales tax, your thoughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Rogers" data-source="post: 931551" data-attributes="member: 60724"><p>First, a terminology point. The correct term to use and way to view sales tax is that it is collected, not charged. Collection implies that the money is simply being collected and passed on to the state, or local government, which is a more appropriate way to look at it then "charge", which simply implies that one has to pay the etailer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As stated; many internet marketers are already collecting sales tax when selling to residents. I see that a lot.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The way I see it, it is fine by me if that practice is executed in a uniform fashion and all etailers collect sales tax when shipping or otherwise providing service to residents. It is easily automatable with technology at-hand (no excuse not to), and the current tax laws, procedures and precedents would call for just such collection.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>HOWEVER, I am not a proponent of collecting these same taxes from non-residents. There is little in the way of uniform mechanisms and expectations for taxing people across state (or county) lines as the Internet sales tax is positing. The closest we have is the "honor system" that most states have in their state tax returns in which they allow the taxpayer to pay taxes on untaxed goods or services purchased in another state. Since that is already in place, and has become the defecto mechnism for taxing sales to non-residents by the brick and mortars, it should be used for etailer sales as well.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Fair tax would be better.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>TJR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Rogers, post: 931551, member: 60724"] First, a terminology point. The correct term to use and way to view sales tax is that it is collected, not charged. Collection implies that the money is simply being collected and passed on to the state, or local government, which is a more appropriate way to look at it then "charge", which simply implies that one has to pay the etailer. As stated; many internet marketers are already collecting sales tax when selling to residents. I see that a lot. The way I see it, it is fine by me if that practice is executed in a uniform fashion and all etailers collect sales tax when shipping or otherwise providing service to residents. It is easily automatable with technology at-hand (no excuse not to), and the current tax laws, procedures and precedents would call for just such collection. HOWEVER, I am not a proponent of collecting these same taxes from non-residents. There is little in the way of uniform mechanisms and expectations for taxing people across state (or county) lines as the Internet sales tax is positing. The closest we have is the "honor system" that most states have in their state tax returns in which they allow the taxpayer to pay taxes on untaxed goods or services purchased in another state. Since that is already in place, and has become the defecto mechnism for taxing sales to non-residents by the brick and mortars, it should be used for etailer sales as well. Fair tax would be better. TJR [/QUOTE]
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