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Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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." |
Taxes on internet sales
"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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
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? |
Taxes on internet sales
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. |
Taxes on internet sales
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:27:14 -0400, 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. Even if it's just a storage/shipping facility. |
Taxes on internet sales
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:54:16 -0600, Canuck57
wrote: 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. Maybe you should stop being a racist for 30 seconds. |
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On 4/8/2011 12:20 PM, 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. 15% sales tax? You have to be kiddin. |
Taxes on internet sales
On 08/04/2011 12:23 PM, OmDeFlume wrote:
On 4/8/2011 12:20 PM, 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. 15% sales tax? You have to be kiddin. Government greed. You didn't think Canada substandard one provider network was free? His income tax is worse. Booze if 3 to 4 times the price of the US, gasoline is more expensive....government is quite literally up your ass as as toilet paper is taxed at 15%. Applies to homes too. Hey, there is a reason why more Americans have toys like boats. The more government gets the less the people get. |
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:08:21 -0400, HarryisPaul wrote:
In article , says... On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:54:16 -0600, Canuck57 wrote: 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. Maybe you should stop being a racist for 30 seconds. Ok, please explain, what did he say there that was anywhere near a racist remark? YOU are the one always bringing up race! Not a damn thing. He just blames Obama for everything, over and over and over. YOU are one of the little men who hides behind sockpuppies because you're not enough of a man to speak with one voice. |
Taxes on internet sales
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. No kidding. I hope you didn't have to use Google for that huge insight. |
Taxes on internet sales
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:14:33 -0700 (PDT), 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. Virginia's been collecting taxes on internet purchases for years. |
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