MXL Operating System ~ View topic - States Push to Collect Online Sales Tax

Support this site by shopping on eBay!

Author

Message

< World News ~ States Push to Collect Online Sales Tax

Lucas

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:30 pm

Mutant/GSA trainee

Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 81 Location: Romania

[From slashdot]

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "On Saturday, 18 states will implement the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, which will make it easier to collect local and state sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet while offering amnesty on uncollected taxes. In their longstanding opposition to collect sales tax, many online retailers 'have cited a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that said that it would be too onerous for e-tailers to calculate all the permutations of differing state and local tax rates,' the Wall Street Journal reports. 'One goal of the project was to remove the ruling as a key defense for online merchants.' Is your state involved? 'The states that have signed on are Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and West Virginia. Five more -- Arkansas, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming -- are in the process of finalizing the requirements needed to join, while Washington, Texas and Nevada are in earlier stages.'"

_________________
We are all travellers in this wilderness of the world and the best we can find for ourselves is an honest friend

All times are GMT

View next topic View previous topic Page 1 of 1 MXL Operating System Forum Index ~ World News

You can post new topics in this forum
You can reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

Free Recipes Videos Jokes and More!

Web Hosting for this free forum is provided by Free Bulletin Board get your free phpbb forum or free Invision forum today!