A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

Frogwatch wrote:
A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.


Translation: "I don't want to pay any taxes so I can have as free a ride
as possible as I use what society has made available for me."

"Frogwatch" wrote in message
...

A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

*******************

They do it up here... although there are only ten provinces and three
territories.
If I order something from Ontario.. they have no problem applying out 15%
HST rate.

True North wrote:


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
...

A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

*******************

They do it up here... although there are only ten provinces and three
territories.
If I order something from Ontario.. they have no problem applying out
15% HST rate.


If you order something on line here and the merchant has a store in your
state, the sales tax is collected.

On 08/04/2011 10:14 AM, Frogwatch wrote:
A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

Move offshore is an option for some. The whole idea is a tax greedy
leftie fleabagger idea. Hey, I like the idea of low to no property
taxes and lower utility bills in most of South America.

Will fail. Have a better idea, a $5 gallon oil tax and a 25% fixed
non-refundable tax hike. Hey, that is what it would take to keep the
liberal wasteful spending to a balanced budget.

Either that or like everyone else, cut spending when income is lower
than spending. Time for government to grow up. Hey, if fleabaggers
want government to run their life they should sign their lives away and
let government take care of them. For the rest of us, we want our
economic freedom.

On 08/04/2011 10:19 AM, Harryk wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.


Translation: "I don't want to pay any taxes so I can have as free a ride
as possible as I use what society has made available for me."


Funny, I have never approved of liberal wasteful spending. Why should I
pay for other peoples wasteful ideas?

Hint: I will not.

On 08/04/2011 10:27 AM, Harryk wrote:
True North wrote:


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
...

A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

*******************

They do it up here... although there are only ten provinces and three
territories.
If I order something from Ontario.. they have no problem applying out
15% HST rate.


If you order something on line here and the merchant has a store in your
state, the sales tax is collected.

Funny, maybe Obama should apply a national GST and set it to 20% on
everything so he can balance the budget.

On 08/04/2011 10:20 AM, True North wrote:


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
...

A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

*******************

They do it up here... although there are only ten provinces and three
territories.
If I order something from Ontario.. they have no problem applying out
15% HST rate.

Now you know why I moved to Alberta in 1980. I could see the Ontario
tax greed being a real wealth killer. Was I so right.

You are happy paying $4500 in HST when I pay the lowest in Canada at
$1500 GST for a $30,000 auto?

Works that way with income tax and utilities too, I pay less and have more.

So are you a social welfare case worried about the Ontario government
bankruptcy?

I can't help but laugh. All my old Ontario buddies still work and are
in debt. Sad but true. All sucked into government knows best.

So now that I am not paying exorbitant huge fat Ottawa government wage
taxes any more....guess they are broke too.

In article , princecraft51
@gmail.com says...

"Frogwatch" wrote in message
...

A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.

*******************

They do it up here... although there are only ten provinces and three
territories.
If I order something from Ontario.. they have no problem applying out 15%
HST rate.

What is "no problem applying out" mean?

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:19:12 -0400, Harryk
wrote:

Frogwatch wrote:
A friend and I were discussing the state budget and he advocated a
sales tax on internet sales.
Sales taxes are supposed to be to fund infrastructure related to the
company but if the company is not in the state where the purchaser is
located, then it is simply another tax for no purpose.

It is often said that internet sales compete unfairly with local brick
and mortar stores. I do not think this is true very often. Most of
the time, if you are going to purchase something, you want to see it
first so you would prefer to go to a local vendor. If the local
vendor either does not have the item or is so inconvenient as to
discourage a sale, then you buy online. If you know exactly what you
want and the local vendor charges too much you buy online and you save
the gas it would take to go to the local vendor. So, this idea of
unfair competition is simply a myth.

How would a company deal with an internet sales tax, badly I am sure.
Can you imagine having to report sales to 50 different states and even
then some cities charge their own tax. The paperwork alone would
drive some companies out of business. So much for job creation.


Translation: "I don't want to pay any taxes so I can have as free a ride
as possible as I use what society has made available for me."

We charge sales tax to customers who live in California. For those
outside of California, we don't charge sales tax. There's been a
history of not charging tax for items purchased outside one's state,
Internet or not. If this is going to implemented, it would need to be
across the board, not just for Internet sales. I believe it would
probably hurt sales in a break-in period, then things would reach a
steady state again. It would be quite a hassle but not an
insurmountable one.

I think this isn't the time to tax individuals more, which is what
this would do. We want people to buy. I'm not as concerned about the
effect on business for the long term, esp. if this were enforced
equally among the states, but that puts it at the Federal level. There
hasn't been much appetite for raising taxes.