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Democrats Turn to Online Sales Tax for New Revenues Following Debt Battle

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“Congress often says that small businesses are the backbone of the economic recovery, but these new collection costs will break the backs of many small online businesses,” said Steve, DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a tech trade group.
“It’s a cruel irony to call this job-killing bill the ‘Main Street Fairness Act,’” DelBianco added. “Online sales are about the only way small retailers can survive being steamrolled by the big-box chains who are behind this bill.”
Retailers are only required to collect sales tax in states where they also have a physical presence under a 1992 Supreme Court ruling known as the Quill decision. The high court ruled that a sales tax on out-of-state sellers would be an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce because of the complexity of states’ and municipalities’ sales tax rules.


Read more: Democrats Turn to Online Sales Tax for New Revenues Following Debt Battle - FoxNews.com
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Democrats: Using Government to support their Big Business Cronies and hurt the little guy.
 
How is it pro-business to give an unfair advantage to online retailers versus in-state retailers?
 
end interventionism and the failed war on pot.
 
I could be wrong and I suppose I'll have to go look it up but it seems to me that I've seen Republican guvs supporting this also.

{edit} Here we go.

Tennessee governor 'volunteers' to raise national taxes

P.S. One does have to give Perry credit for vetoing the tax in Texas.
 
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What tax rate would be charged?

If it is the states rate where the seller is, then the sellers in higher tax areas will not sell as much as online purchasers have a choice of who to purchase from.
 
Well I don't support this as we could get more $$$ a different way: by stopping these stupid, useless wars, getting rid of waste in the Pentagon, SS, Medicare, and Medicaid. And taxing the derivatives market.
 
Mason66 said:
What tax rate would be charged?

If it is the states rate where the seller is, then the sellers in higher tax areas will not sell as much as online purchasers have a choice of who to purchase from.
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I believe it would be the purchaser's state collecting the tax.
 
hazlnut said:
Read: Fox News spins non-story.
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Indeed. The "little guy" in this story is the in-state brick and mortar store that's at a competitive disadvantage because it has to charge sales tax on the exact item that an online retailer can sell tax free.
 
AdamT said:
Indeed. The "little guy" in this story is the in-state brick and mortar store that's at a competitive disadvantage because it has to charge sales tax on the exact item that an online retailer can sell tax free.
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Then the solution is obvious. Make it tax free for both.
 
1Perry said:
Then the solution is obvious. Make it tax free for both.
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Sure, no problem. Then you can run your own police department, fire department, road construction crews, schools, hospitals, etc., etc.
 
AdamT said:
Indeed. The "little guy" in this story is the in-state brick and mortar store that's at a competitive disadvantage because it has to charge sales tax on the exact item that an online retailer can sell tax free.
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The box seller however doesn't pay shipping charges or bundles the shipping charges into the cost of the item. Any advantage an online seller has by not charging taxes is quickly erased by having to pay shipping to get the item to the buyer.
 
Ockham said:
The box seller however doesn't pay shipping charges or bundles the shipping charges into the cost of the item. Any advantage an online seller has by not charging taxes is quickly erased by having to pay shipping to get the item to the buyer.
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No, not really. The online retailer saves a ton of money by not having to maintain an expensive retail establishment, sales staff, and all the rest of it. They can locate themselves in the cheapest possible place and save all that money. In any case, shipping costs are the price of convenience. I don't buy stuff online to avoid sales tax; I buy stuff online because I can do it from my keyboard.
 
AdamT said:
No, not really. The online retailer saves a ton of money by not having to maintain an expensive retail establishment, sales staff, and all the rest of it. They can locate themselves in the cheapest possible place and save all that money. In any case, shipping costs are the price of convenience. I don't buy stuff online to avoid sales tax; I buy stuff online because I can do it from my keyboard.
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How inexpensive -- that's subjective. No sales staff but certainly a web staff to make sure their point of sale (the Website) is open and working and updated. They also have to have staff for packing and shipping for if they did not, they'd have to pay a company to pack and ship for them increasing the costs. Granted the overhead of brick and mortar is higher and must include losses for in store breakage (depending on the type of store) but chains can buy in bulk and get discounts smaller online stores cannot. It's probably closer in costs at the end of the day - the area where it may be wider is in the profit margins.
 
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