High Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax

[Andy Asaro]

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[Tom]

But high on what?

Once again, the Kourt gets it totally wrong.
What an embarrassment they can be.
Grown men running around in black dresses pretending to be who knows what.
You want respect, dress like adults.

[PaceAdvantage]

That's a nice little blow to e-commerce...

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

That's a nice little blow to e-commerce...

Lots of places been doing it already.

If you own a business that buys online parts etc....you’ve been warned to pay this for a couple of years now

[HalvOnHorseracing]

Originally Posted by Tom

But high on what?

Once again, the Kourt gets it totally wrong.
What an embarrassment they can be.
Grown men running around in black dresses pretending to be who knows what.
You want respect, dress like adults.

Almost everybody already pays sales tax on internet sales. Hardly something to get irritated about.

I concede it would be a real headache for small retailers (people who sell crafts made at home for example) with no physical presence in a respective state to worry do the accounting without paying a professional.

[Inner Dirt]

I did not read up. I am gathering the collected tax would be paid to the state where the item was delivered to, with the logic that the purchaser bought something out of state to avoid paying tax if they had a choice between buying something in state or out of state. What happens if a person lives in the Confederacy where certain items are not available. I buy from local merchants whenever possible, I don't mind paying more. I am a small machine shop who moved from California to Virginia. When in California I used to buy most of my high end cutting tools 10 miles away in the same city. Here in the Confederacy there is not a high end cutting tool seller in the whole state, so I buy all my cutting tools from out of state. For that reason why in hell should I pay sales tax to Virginia for something I bought from a company in New Jersey, when in fact the item is not available in my state?

[reckless]

I know most people hate this ruling. I understand why, paying taxes is hated by everyone.

But the e-commerce industry, with uber online merchandiser Amazon as the poster child, should collect taxes on goods sold.

Let's face it, Amazon's success has basically destroyed the brick and mortar business, named former retail giants Sears, Wal-Mart, Macy's, etc.

By extension, these companies have lost piles of sales in those stores that were located in larger cities.

These retailers not only generated large amounts of sales tax daily but were often the largest contributors of real estate taxes as well.

Store closings of these department stores have simply wrecked havoc to the tax base of these cities and towns.

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by HalvOnHorseracing

Almost everybody already pays sales tax on internet sales. Hardly something to get irritated about.

I concede it would be a real headache for small retailers (people who sell crafts made at home for example) with no physical presence in a respective state to worry do the accounting without paying a professional.

Not unless the business has a presence in the state where the item was ordered. I order business supplies constantly from out of state that are not for resale and I do not use a resale card to buy them and never pay sales tax. Let me guess, you are another liberal talking out of your ass, what a shock.

[porchy44]

4 out of the 5 who voted yes where appointed by a Republican president.

Sales tax is a "regressive tax". Republicans are for regressive taxation.

It seems though for the last several years the Supreme Court votes more based on their political affiliation and not the law.

[Dave Schwartz]

The issue is for small vendors such as us.

Now, instead of filing a sales tax return in NV, we may have to file more than 50 different returns.

That has to amount to a couple of hundred hours per year (including the keeping score of where each sale originated).

[chadk66]

I buy 80% of my stuff online. it's a pretty rare thing for me to be charged sales tax

[JustRalph]

Amazon already does it. In most states.

[thaskalos]

Can Amazon appeal the ruling?

[Jeff P]

Who do they appeal to?


-jp

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[thaskalos]

The HIGHEST authority. DONALD TRUMP!