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


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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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.

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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.