i dont like your persona, but i appreciated the post on your blog that thoughtfully explained in lay terms how this affected everyone. best writeup ive seen on it yet..
More States Propose Internet Sales Taxes
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i dont like your persona, but i appreciated the post on your blog that thoughtfully explained in lay terms how this affected everyone. best writeup ive seen on it yet..
On a side note, the states' ability to do this seems odd given the Supreme Court's decision in Quill v. North Dakota...
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tax Foundation - Important Tax Cases: Quill Corp. v. North Dakota and the Physical Presence Rule for Sales Tax Collection
Quill might have been overturned by Congress. But given its scope, that would have been an especially heavy-handed approach, even by the D.C. thugs.
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tax Foundation - Important Tax Cases: Quill Corp. v. North Dakota and the Physical Presence Rule for Sales Tax Collection
Quill might have been overturned by Congress. But given its scope, that would have been an especially heavy-handed approach, even by the D.C. thugs.
i completely agree this is obstruction and probably unconstitutional, but it's not really a cogent argument IMO because the federal tax code is already ridiculously complicated and we hire professionals to handle that, too.
API-based service providers already exist for maintaining nexus obligations and remitting sales and use tax funds.
a quick google turned up this Sales and Use Tax Basic 5.0.0 for finding current rates in real-time
and i know that there are providers to handle remittance for all the districts.
edit: http://www.avalara.com/
If any affiliates in those states want to move your business to Texas (no state tax), I'll be your registered agent for a small yearly fee. 
I can refer a laywer and I have a physical address you can have mail sent to. I'll forward it to you wherever you want (for a small fee again).
I can refer a laywer and I have a physical address you can have mail sent to. I'll forward it to you wherever you want (for a small fee again).
If any affiliates in those states want to move your business to Texas (no state tax), I'll be your registered agent for a small yearly fee.
There are plenty of companies that already do this for people and have been for years, what is the incentive to use you over them?
If any affiliates in those states want to move your business to Texas (no state tax), I'll be your registered agent for a small yearly fee.
yep. every time i hear people bitch about taxes in certain states I ask myself why you guys dont just move your physical address and pay a small yearly fee... you'll save more than that amount by doing this. with this biz nobody really cares about where you are located...
You got the point, man.
Amazon action is worth hundred google groups against internet taxes all together.
The sad side of this story is represented by affiliates who are the weak ring of the chain.
You're right of course. This is actually already a problem as each county has different retail taxes in a state but if you're doing ecommerce in your state you must charge them taxes. Keeping track is way to hard and most retailers just charge the highest rate in the state. If it got to that point I'm sure businesses would popup to handle this for other businesses though.
You'll only hear me say this about certain things, this is one of those moments: Thank god I live in SC...
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.... but we can smoke weed? that's really the make-or-break of it.
as far as i'm concerned, <1oz is completely decriminalized in alaska, and a 1000w grow light would double as a space heater, so uhh, PM me if you're serious
do they have college in alaska? if so i'm down...
it doesn't even matter if these laws dont get approved. somethin stupid is just going to happen again in a few months from now. obamas a b*tch
you do realize obama has nothing to do with what happens with state laws...right?
The internet has been far to efficient a market place and moving way to fast because of it. Hell it's innovation is probably one of the key things that has kept the global economy going, should we really let that continue without fucking things up a little? It's about time the government started nosing in to cost everyone 3 times as much in waste as they collect in taxes.
I think this is why Amazon dropped CO affiliates. They are probably not going to comply with collecting sales tax or providing the state with information about purchases and when the state goes to court, they can argue that they have no nexus in the state and therefore the state can't add burdens on them thus obstructing interstate commerce. Dropping the affiliates was probably a pre-emptive move so that the state can't claim that they have nexus in the state.
^^^ this
Plus if it comes down to it, and it goes to any higher courts - there is an argument for stare decisis which is the legal principle by which judges are obliged to obey the set-up precedents established by prior decisions. They can argue Qull Corp V North Dakota and it will be a slam dunk:
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992) is a Supreme Court of the United States case concerning use tax. Quill Corporation is an office supply retailer. Quill had no physical presence in North Dakota (neither a sales force, nor a retail outlet), however it did have a licensed computer software program that some of its North Dakota customers used to check Quill's current inventories and place orders directly. North Dakota attempted to impose a use tax on Quill, which was struck down by the Supreme Court.
Plus if it comes down to it, and it goes to any higher courts - there is an argument for stare decisis which is the legal principle by which judges are obliged to obey the set-up precedents established by prior decisions. They can argue Qull Corp V North Dakota and it will be a slam dunk:
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992) is a Supreme Court of the United States case concerning use tax. Quill Corporation is an office supply retailer. Quill had no physical presence in North Dakota (neither a sales force, nor a retail outlet), however it did have a licensed computer software program that some of its North Dakota customers used to check Quill's current inventories and place orders directly. North Dakota attempted to impose a use tax on Quill, which was struck down by the Supreme Court.
