12-1-2003 Net Taxes: Here Comes a Battle Royal
More than 30 states have been quietly working to simplify and streamline their sales tax laws. That's a crucial step in their plan to require e-tailers to collect sales tax on all goods they sell. For decades, mail-order and online sellers have avoided that responsibility, thanks to a series of Supreme Court rulings that barred states from forcing out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes. The High Court blocked the practice, saying most sales-tax laws were too confusing for out-of-state sellers. But the court also said Congress could permit such collections if state sales taxes were simplified.
That will set the stage for yet another battle over e-taxes next year. And that struggle could, for the first time, take the issue beyond the narrow question of taxing monthly Internet service provider [ISP] fees. It could open the door to the much bigger controversy over taxing all e-commerce.
10-31-2003 Well, I'll start saying my Goodbyes, I'm sure many of you won't miss me anyway.
Congress let the ban on Taxation of the Internet expire yesterday so:
LET THE TAXATION BEGIN
10-28-2003 Hopefully between today and Friday I can change the Title of this thread but if the 4 Senators that are holding the Permanent Exemption from Taxation for the Internet Bill do not release it before Friday then the Tax Exemption Moratorium ends and that means an endless flood of Internet Taxation that would surely be the Death of the Internet at least in the truest form it was meant to be.
Florida has already been banking that the Moratorium will end and has already been taxing Florida residents 14%.
I've been amazed that Florida residents have not been screaming about this.
More than 30 states have been quietly working to simplify and streamline their sales tax laws. That's a crucial step in their plan to require e-tailers to collect sales tax on all goods they sell. For decades, mail-order and online sellers have avoided that responsibility, thanks to a series of Supreme Court rulings that barred states from forcing out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes. The High Court blocked the practice, saying most sales-tax laws were too confusing for out-of-state sellers. But the court also said Congress could permit such collections if state sales taxes were simplified.
That will set the stage for yet another battle over e-taxes next year. And that struggle could, for the first time, take the issue beyond the narrow question of taxing monthly Internet service provider [ISP] fees. It could open the door to the much bigger controversy over taxing all e-commerce.
10-31-2003 Well, I'll start saying my Goodbyes, I'm sure many of you won't miss me anyway.
Congress let the ban on Taxation of the Internet expire yesterday so:
LET THE TAXATION BEGIN
10-28-2003 Hopefully between today and Friday I can change the Title of this thread but if the 4 Senators that are holding the Permanent Exemption from Taxation for the Internet Bill do not release it before Friday then the Tax Exemption Moratorium ends and that means an endless flood of Internet Taxation that would surely be the Death of the Internet at least in the truest form it was meant to be.
Florida has already been banking that the Moratorium will end and has already been taxing Florida residents 14%.
I've been amazed that Florida residents have not been screaming about this.