Amazon.com tax for CA coming...

[Zebo]

Swatting flies. 100m vs 20B shortfall. Then you'll have uninteded shortfalls which will occur such as huge gas tax not being collected due to less interstate deliveries. Then former UPS and FEDEX drivers payroll taxes gone and so on. I bet it's a wash in the end and California is still fucked. Too many deadbeats per capita. And that includes people like my mom a retired professor sucking off $140K each year and doing nothing.

 

[moshquerade]

WRONG!!!

If this passes Amazon will not charge sales tax.

They will just cancel contracts will all of their affiliates in CA. This has happened in several states. Sucks for the affiliates but for the rest of us it's not big deal.

You don't know what you're talking about. Amazon is going to charge you tax on everything, because Cali wants a piece of the pie. It's not just going to charge tax for sales on their CA affiliate stores.

You live in NY you pay tax on everything you buy on Amazon and I mean everything. CA is going to be the same.

Welcome to my world. Have a nice day of being taxed.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Yeah, because California business have to collect sales tax, which puts them at a disadvantage against internet businesses.

How exactly does collecting taxes put them at a disadvantage? I bet retail businesses spend a heck of a lot more money paying for their retail space than Internet resellers do in non-retail locations.

And unless retailers can only survive on things that can only be sold in retail (like gasoline, pizza, etc.) then there is no reason why they cannot setup an Internet business themselves.

But I doubt the sales tax revenues generated from this will offset how poorly the state of California has run itself into the ground. No overcoming dumb. :awe:

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Sucks, but I can't honestly say i actually go and pay the use tax or whatever it's called, so I'd grudgingly go along with it.

Right. In my state (Georgia) they have a distribution presence and as such collect sales tax. But it is still worth it when you save money 99% of the time over places like Bad (ahem, Best) Buy.

 

[techs]

They are trying to collect more taxes by closing a loophole.

Another way to put it, would be that so many people were criminally avoiding paying the their taxes, they closed the loophole.

 

[alm99]

Haha, suckers. About time someone else feels the raping after Amazon started charging us that live in NY. Another bankrupt state btw.

 

[sdifox]

I was referring to before NY forced them to. If you lived in NY and sold a $100 item via Amazon to someone else in NY, Amazon collected the $100. However, on your tax filings, since it would show that you sold it to someone in NY, you ended up footing the bill for the tax.

You mean that 100 dollar did not get passed onto the retailer (from amazon marketplace)? That's fraud.

 

[KLin]

Haha, suckers. About time someone else feels the raping after Amazon started charging us that live in NY. Another bankrupt state btw.

Amazon isn't charging you a sales tax, NY is charging a sales tax. Amazon is just forced to collect it.

 

[dwell]

Amazon isn't charging you a sales tax, NY is charging a sales tax. Amazon is just forced to collect it.

Correct. This is when I stopped buying big ticket items from Amazon. Governor Paterson sucks.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

All I have to say is...

California and New York. LOL!

 

[sswingle]

You mean that 100 dollar did not get passed onto the retailer (from amazon marketplace)? That's fraud.

No....

Amazon would give the retailer the 100, minus any fee's associated with selling through Amazon. Then when filing their business taxes, their records would show a sale made to that state, so then the business needs to pay the state a percentage of that 100. That sales tax should have come from the customer, but amazon did not collect it, so the business is stuck paying it.

 

[mugs]

You mean that 100 dollar did not get passed onto the retailer (from amazon marketplace)? That's fraud.

No; Amazon collected the $100 and gave it to the seller (minus their commission), but they didn't collect the NY sales tax. The seller was required to collect the NY sales tax and didn't have any way to do so, so they had to pay it themselves.

 

[stag3]

how about lowering salaries you shitbags
cut welfare and food stamps

tax tax tax is all they ever want to do
we should be taxed on our wages or when we buy stuff, not both
/rant

 

[drnickriviera]

We have to pay in TN because Amazon has some presence here. I'm sure the local businesses are a fan of this btw.

You do? I've never paid tax to amazon in Memphis

 

[sdifox]

No....

Amazon would give the retailer the 100, minus any fee's associated with selling through Amazon. Then when filing their business taxes, their records would show a sale made to that state, so then the business needs to pay the state a percentage of that 100. That sales tax should have come from the customer, but amazon did not collect it, so the business is stuck paying it.

Oops, totally misread DrPizza's post.

<-- loser.