Internet purchases soon to include SALES TAX

NYS already forced sales tax on internet sales. Thats the main reason I stopped shopping at amazon.com

It's bad enough that sales tax here is 8.75%, but now they are adding a 5 cent deposit fee on every single bottle of water purchased.

while there may be a federal loophole, there aren't many state loopholes.

it is within congress's authority to regulate interstate commerce for the purposes of facilitating state collection of their constitutionally authorized sales tax. i don't care for taxes, but states have to get their money somehow. i'd rather it be sales taxes than income and ad valorem taxes.

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Ebay has made sellers accept only Pay Pal from buyers.
The credit card company already sends a yearly break down of purchases in groups.
So, It is possible that when credit/debit cards are used and sales tax has not been charged, you will just get something once a year saying that you made these purchases and you owe this tax OR the tax could be applied when you make a purchase with the card, cutting out the middle man.

If they have the power to tax at 1%, then they have the power to tax at 100%, but they are smart enough not to make it one tax.

We have Obama promising no tax increases for all who make below 250k.
The IRS is out of control. 1 more reason to buy gold and silver.

income tax return you are asked to calculate the tax on internet and catalog purchases and add it to your return. So far I haven't complied but it may be unavoidable in the future.

How would they tax it? I mean, local businesses get taxed locally...even ebay in state you have to charge in state taxes. How would it work for interstate transactions?

Also, can someone cite where ebay is going to have to be reported to the IRS?

Thanks

Starting next year you have to pay the IRS as income from all of your sales. I'm done selling on Ebay for this very reason. I will stay locally, until Craigslist starts turning me in to the IRS that is.

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It seems to me this bill would violate the Constitution's interstate commerce clause which makes things like charging levies or taxes on people in one state more than another. If this bill passed Company A would be charging people in different states different amounts. The only reason companies currently have to charge sales tax is when they are doing business in a specific state and are thus bound to charge locals the sales tax.

Every state AFAIK that charges sales tax also has a USE tax that is the same amount as the sales tax and is a charge for bringing things into the state from somewhere else to use in that state. So everyone who lives in a sales tax state should already be paying their state's use tax on everything purchased, but most everyone doesn't do this because its voluntary and the public is not sufficiently aware of their obligation.

Collect your own taxes!

How can a small internet company afford to comply with 7,000 different tax codes across the nation? This just seems like a way to prevent people from competing with large businesss.

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Nothing like stifling stimulous puchases..
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this would be perfect opportunity for all vendors to REFUSE to comply.

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It reminds me of the song "Tax Man" by the Beatles. Everything, everything will be taxed. It does anger me a lot. Internet sales have been a wonderful haven and still should be. How criminal.

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that Ebay is NOT "enraged".

Ebay might "claim" to be "enraged", but Ebay is a toadie for the Federal Gov't, and is happy to institute as many onerous policies as humanly possible against their customers.

Ebay is slime incarnate.
Probably the very WORST company that ever appeared on the World Wide Web.
A disgrace.

With any luck if this destroyed Ebay entirely, and they had to go out of business with total losses to every asshole employed by that company, the world would be a much better place.