Complicated Taxation
As Rick stated above, simplification of taxes in the States would benefit them overall. But Dean, are you only against Amazon.com or all online/mail order type businesses that don't feel compelled to...
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Amazon is already paying all the taxes that they would even if they were to collect sales taxes. These include property taxes, income taxes on retained profits and believe it or not, anything that they...
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_____________ Wrong. Sales taxes are a tax on the 'seller'. If sellers could so easily have charged their buyers another 6-8% in product pricing (sales-tax equivalent price increase) -- they would...
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It is not that easy... In Iowa, the sales tax is by county and city (a city can cross county lines). How many web sites have visited that asked for your county? ZIP Code gets close doing the job, but...
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*mean moment* Here in MI, we do have the Use Tax exactly as post #2 mentioned. Its stupid, just like Dean Baker. */mean moment*
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"Someday we might clean out all the corruptness in Washington when all the old farts die off and this next generation puts people in office that pays attention to the will of the people." --nice...
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"Given this fact, imagine that we have the Jeff Bezos tax scam shop (a.k.a. Amazon.com). They don't make you pay the tax. Naturally you will be willing to give most of your savings to Mr. Bezos, since...
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Here's how I see it. I buy a lot of stuff online. I enjoy not having to pay taxes. I do not have children. People with children use more government resources than I ever have or will AND they get tax...
View ArticleUse Tax Anyone?
Here in Michigan we have a 6% use tax. 6% being the same percentage as our sales tax. If a Michigander buys any item that would be covered under sales tax online and the online retailer does NOT charge...
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I don't like paying taxes any more than anyone else; but lets get real about the difficulty for online retailers. Cheap, effective software will make it simple enough. My business uses it now. In...
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Why does the news media need to run to college campuses to talk to these idiots? These professors can't run a business. They have no idea what it's like in the real world. Mail order businesses have...
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Do you claim to deal with retail customers in more than 40 different states and hundreds of different municipalities across the entire United States in your business? You are incorrect if you think...
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"Amazon uses few if any services from state or local governments in Missouri, so it's hard to see anything unfair about the fact that it doesn't have to collect sales taxes here." - The argument is a...
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I'm confused *Professors*, why are you talking about college professors? Is it because the guy's name was "Dean Baker??" I guess running that business of yours hasn't taught you how to read terribly...
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Another issue -- "no taxation without representation!" A business in a city that overtaxes can always threaten to move. It's employees can lobby that city, or vote in its elections. Same at the state...
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"No taxation without representation" was a party line really Michael. It was a slogan that sounded nice. The real reason had nothing really to do with representation. It was the fact that import goods...
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Slogan or not, "no taxation without representation" is still valid. How do you expect democracy to work if you are subject to laws you don't even get to vote on? How do you expect taxing authorities to...
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I'm the Anon guy up above, anyway. Putting aside the fact that we're not a democracy. We already tax outside our jurisdiction, often. Currently we are taxing Iraq's oil reserves to help drum up and...
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If I get exempted from a fee that everyone else has to pay, this is a subsidy. And Amazon is getting a subsidy in the states that have sales taxes, since they do not have to pay the tax, by virtue of...
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