Comments on: Sales Tax Victory Not Assured for All States

By: bill.ne

bill.ne — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:09:46 +0000

The way to do this to be ‘fair’ to online AND brick/mortar (b/m) stores is for online retailers to collect sales tax on ALL sales (local and out of state) and submit them ONLY to their LOCAL city/state. That is what b/m stores do. THAT would level the playing field.

B/m stores do not check customers’ IDs and pay sales tax to the state where the customer lives. Regardless of whether that customer crossed a state line to visit that store and take their purchases to their home state.

When people shop online, they ‘visit’ the store in whatever state it is, the store does not visit them, same as b/m stores.

States like South Dakota can collect sales taxes from their own local businesses and not MOOCH off other states. If they don’t like it, they can make their state more attractive to businesses and create incentives for companies to sell there. Each state should benefit from their own economy they built themselves, not some other state’s.

For companies who sell from multiple states such as Amazon, they can pay taxes to each state based on where the items ship from, the warehouse address for each item, which is usually a few states.

Problem solved. No nightmare for us small online businesses. No ridiculous tax burden of 12,000 whatever tax zones. ‘Level playing field’

New Hampshire would be satisfied as well.

I agree that sales taxes need to be collected and I would gladly pay sales taxes to my city/state on all sales, in or out, of state. States should not be allowed to mooch off other states.

By: who really cares

who really cares — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:13:24 +0000

@ Bill

I really feel for Ebay BUT no matter how hard I reach I can get to them.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:31:17 +0000

Here is the kicker: If eBay is considered to be the the seller when they start taking the payments then they will be the ones responsible for paying the tax. It will have to be levied on all sales to say South Dakota because they will be making more then 200K in sales a year. If they want to be the seller and not just “a venue” that is their responsibility and theirs alone. That will be the downside for eBay trying to force their way into everybody’s business. I am sure that is why they did not want the sales tax thing upheld in SCOTUS.

eBay = Dead Man Walking

By: who really cares

who really cares — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 15:14:11 +0000

I would think that if you currently don’t have 200000 in sales, much less to the same state, what is there to worry about. This sales tax thing is meant for the big dealers ie walmart, wayfair etc. Most of the people don’t have 200000 in sales total for the year. Thats if you believe all the crying about no sales. In fact 200000 in sales for each state makes it 10 million dollars and that would make one a diamond dealer. If you make that much and aren’t then why are you on fleecebay.