Amazon.com starts collecting Sales Taxes in TX.. July 1

[Sean88gt]

It is about time. ALL internet sales should be taxed at the delivery zip codes tax rate.

For retailers such as yourself, it makes sense, as it will push buyers back into the stores, theoretically.

[crapstang]

It's online, there shouldn't be any sales tax. Fuck you TX

[ALLAN]

No sales tax in FL yet. When it happens I will just buy less and buy used.
Hope this backfires on them.

[EW]

What if you called and ordered it? Should it be taxed then?

Yes, phone, internet, mail, etc. Products sold to you should be taxed at your local tax rate and the money sent to your local municipality. I don't want more taxes (or any for that matter) but paying local sales tax is not an additional tax. Nobody likes paying taxes but buying out of state is a twofold hit to your local economy and public services, no retailer income and no tax revenue. Why should you be rewarded for sending your business dollars to another state?
For states with no sales tax now, IMO they should have no sales tax for internet, phone, mail transactions delivered to their state.

I'm against a national sales tax. F the feds.

[Buick355]

It is about time. ALL internet sales should be taxed at the delivery zip codes tax rate.

This will be a clusterfuck for each state trying to keep track of internet sales from other states that shipped products into their state. Maybe taxing at the retailers state sales tax rate would be easier (which would give the five states that don't have sales tax an advantage).

[Dlachance]

How about we downsize the government? Maybe then we can finally start paying down the debt.

[Got5onIt]

I purchase hundreds of items per year on Amazon. Not happy over this....

[Big A]

This will be a clusterfuck for each state trying to keep track of internet sales from other states that shipped products into their state. Maybe taxing at the retailers state sales tax rate would be easier (which would give the five states that don't have sales tax an advantage).

No it wouldn't, there are already softwares that do it automatically, and plenty of companies that already are national or global, and have to deal with much more than just the US.

I personally work for a TX based company, all of my clients are in CA, and every city and county has it's own tax rate. These rates even fluctuate every couple of years, and our ordering system handles it. That's just my end of it, we are a global company, that deals with many different currencies.

I don't think that ordering on-line should have ever been tax-exempt, you are buying a good or service, regardless of how the transaction is processed.

[Slowhand]

I don't think that ordering on-line should have ever been tax-exempt, you are buying a good or service, regardless of how the transaction is processed.

How on earth do you imagine that shouldn't have been the case? The sales tax criteria in Texas quite plainly provided for internet retailers to not have to charge sales tax if they had no physical sales nexus; the way the transaction occurs absolutely matters. The state has gone out of its way to bully Amazon into charging the sales tax, usurping (amending, if you'd rather say it that way) existing Texas sales tax laws in the process. The way the law has been amended provides for the charging of sales tax, which is fine, but providing notice for back-sales taxes is ridiculous.

[Sean88gt]

If I still lived in North Texas, I would get a mail drop in Southern Oklahoma and charge 1/2 of the sales tax to bring the product to Texas buyers.

[Big A]

How on earth do you imagine that shouldn't have been the case? The sales tax criteria in Texas quite plainly provided for internet retailers to not have to charge sales tax if they had no physical sales nexus; the way the transaction occurs absolutely matters. The state has gone out of its way to bully Amazon into charging the sales tax, usurping (amending, if you'd rather say it that way) existing Texas sales tax laws in the process. The way the law has been amended provides for the charging of sales tax, which is fine, but providing notice for back-sales taxes is ridiculous.

If the law was changed in 2005, and they were notified to start charging sales tax, then the back amount is due. If they are just now notifying of the change, or trying to go for any taxes for prior to this anouncement, then I aggree that it's BS.

[Chas_svo]

How about we downsize the government? Maybe then we can finally start paying down the debt.

This is the correct answer, but it will likely only come by force. Our current government size is unsustainable.

[Slowhand]

If the law was changed in 2005, and they were notified to start charging sales tax, then the back amount is due. If they are just now notifying of the change, or trying to go for any taxes for prior to this anouncement, then I aggree that it's BS.

The way I understand it is that the State brought it to their attention back in '04/'05, but that the law didn't change until '10 or '11.

[Geor!]

There is if you own property, and it increases annually even if the market tanks.

Every municipality has property tax. Apples and oranges.

[LANTIRN]

Yea, for the most part I'm done with brick and mortar stores. I haven't been in a Best Buy for a couple of years. Though I do go to Fry's on occasion.

I concur; brick and mortar stores never have what I want in stock.