The last online shopping year without sales tax?
The Federation of Tax Administrators who represents state tax offices thinks so. At least with the Democrats in charge of Congress now. Online shoppers should owe the same sales tax as their home state. But since the Supreme Court ruled that unless a merchant is physically connected to the state, they don’t have to collect.
While the online market has been booming and will continue to do so, if the Democrats even play against the Internet, there will be hell to pay in two years. Hurting businesses? Why don’t we ask those shipping corporations that are booming with profits since the Internet buying craze started? (Yes, we’re looking at you: UPS, Fedex, USPS, DHL, etc).
If you institute a sales tax now, then you basically kill any sort of Internet type of buying power there is. Online merchants will fall by the wayside. Many of those businesses happen to be small businesses. Is that something that we’re looking forward to in the future of this new Congress?
We hope not. As a technologically minded staff, we’re always searching for more gadgets to play with at a good price. Yes, we even buy from eBay. But if taxes are going to be instituted, then we’ll have to find our fun elsewhere. And if so, fair warning. Those new guys we put in Congress this year, won’t be there for too much longer.
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