These kind of articles pop up in a different newspaper, probably every week of the year. It's an old standby when little else of interest is going on.
Don't expect to see this anytime soon. The only way to really see this revenue would be to force the largest small-fish-seller hubs (such as eBay, Amazon) to skim the amounts due and directly route them to each state. eBay's sided with the sellers and created town hall structures to enable users to appeal such legislation quickly, electronically. Read: they're being uncooperative, legally.
Remember how many years it's taken this digital TV thing to finally become a reality since they finally resolved to take action.
This will be a boon for sales tax free states, if the ban for collecting from out-of-state organizations stays in place (as it should).
if you read this article, they've formed a group to standardize "online" taxes for all states. if the states themselves can agree on a standard tax for items sold online only, it will eliminate the reason the supreme court said that taxes couldn't be collected online.
That reason was that the shear number of different state, local, and other tax laws made it near impossible for online retailers to collect the proper tax and to remit it to it's proper government.
If say all 50 states say we'll all argree to tax online purchases for 7%, then it's simplified. any online purchase would have 7% added and would be remitted to the state it was sold. or hell they could say the selling state could get 3.5% and the buyer state get 3.5% , come up with a standardized form for buisnesses and there ya go.
This article just states that a handful of states have standardized their taxes and more are coming states are planning to join this standard
Why would a sales-tax-free state get on board with such a coalition?
All 50 states won't agree on something like that as long as the tax-free states have the advantage of luring corporations so they can collect corporate taxes and fees instead.
Why would a sales-tax-free state get on board with such a coalition?
All 50 states won't agree on something like that as long as the tax-free states have the advantage of luring corporations so they can collect corporate taxes and fees instead.
exactly
Plus the shear amount of lobbyists that will defeat this exact kind of thing.
^^^ Also, it is easy to forget that States strongly dislike having their individual rights trampled. Unless there is federal money on the line, they never agree on ANYTHING.
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that sucks. Well at least my state is sales tax free at stores (for now)
Don't expect to see this anytime soon. The only way to really see this revenue would be to force the largest small-fish-seller hubs (such as eBay, Amazon) to skim the amounts due and directly route them to each state. eBay's sided with the sellers and created town hall structures to enable users to appeal such legislation quickly, electronically. Read: they're being uncooperative, legally.
Remember how many years it's taken this digital TV thing to finally become a reality since they finally resolved to take action.
This will be a boon for sales tax free states, if the ban for collecting from out-of-state organizations stays in place (as it should).
if you read this article, they've formed a group to standardize "online" taxes for all states. if the states themselves can agree on a standard tax for items sold online only, it will eliminate the reason the supreme court said that taxes couldn't be collected online.
That reason was that the shear number of different state, local, and other tax laws made it near impossible for online retailers to collect the proper tax and to remit it to it's proper government.
If say all 50 states say we'll all argree to tax online purchases for 7%, then it's simplified. any online purchase would have 7% added and would be remitted to the state it was sold. or hell they could say the selling state could get 3.5% and the buyer state get 3.5% , come up with a standardized form for buisnesses and there ya go.
This article just states that a handful of states have standardized their taxes and more are coming states are planning to join this standard
All 50 states won't agree on something like that as long as the tax-free states have the advantage of luring corporations so they can collect corporate taxes and fees instead.
Why would a sales-tax-free state get on board with such a coalition?
All 50 states won't agree on something like that as long as the tax-free states have the advantage of luring corporations so they can collect corporate taxes and fees instead.
exactly
Plus the shear amount of lobbyists that will defeat this exact kind of thing.