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Posted By: Bluto Samartino In Response To: The Internet and sales taxes -- a Survey (Sal)
Friday, 13 January 2006, at 3:33 p.m.
It's a tricky thing. Some say that there should be a national sales tax for internet/mail order purchases. Others say that there should be some resolution where all businesses must charge a sales tax of their parent state or something like that.
Amazon, as I see it, does charge sales tax to certain customers. I say this because the last time I made a purchase (over xmas 2005) there was line for "sales tax due" but it was $0.00 for me. Leading me to believe that someone somewhere is being charged sales tax by Amazon. I think tha tif a product is shipped from one of their warehouses that happens to be in your state, they will charge sales tax for that item. Jsuta guess. As such, nothing I ordered was shipped from a warehouse within my state.
Walmart has been lobbying heavily for years to get something done about this. I know, of all people, Walmart is claiming to be a t a disadvantage. Go figure. I believe Walmart charges sales tax to all online customers. I could be wrong, though.
At any rate, this is not a new issue, nor is it over, nor will it be resolved any time soon.
I say, who cares. Take advantage of it both as a consumer as well as an online retailer as much as you can before they actually do something about it. Someday we will look back and say, "Hey, remember when you could avoid sales tax buying through mail or internet?!" Just like we know say, "Hey, remember when it was super easy to get ranked high for good keywords in Google?!"
Bluto.
> I just purchased something through Amazon.com. I could have purchased the
> same thing direct from the manufacturer, but because they have a retail
> presence in my state I would have had to paid $60 in sales tax. So I
> avoided paying sales tax, and I also don't have to pay shipping because my
> purchase was over a certain dollar amount.
> I just don't understand why states put up with this. Is it because they
> are helpless to stop it?
PCRM is actually PETA - A Scam - Do NOT be fooled!
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