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Those who shop up in the line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monky
I'm saving my money for the FEMA camp commissary.
Haha. Planning on going to the internment camp?Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
Yep...just did our taxes earlier in the week. Ass-raped by the feds again.
It is not my responsibility to collect taxes for Colorado.
That said. Taxes should only be collected at the place of sale, not point of delivery. Taxes support the community in which a store is located. If that jurisdiction does not have a sales tax, it collects other ways. My purchase is paying for someone's income which is taxed in that jurisdiction. Colorado does not pay for the sewer, water, roads, ect in those jurisdictions, nor does general fund money pay for the roads that deliver said purchase.
Tracking out of state purchases is an undo burden on us. I never keep receipts, so if they want to audit me, the burden is on the state to show I owe sales taxes.
Amazon only collects tax from items sold by Amazon. They do have a physical presence in Colorado now.
They have been trying to do so but it's difficult. They only got Amazon to comply by joining with all the other states who felt they were losing revenue due to Amazon purchases.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
It's a tricky issue because lack of sales tax is one reason local merchants lose out to online or mail order sales and government DOES have to be paid for. On the other hand, the bookkeeping is a major pain in the butt for small merchants -- it's much easier for all concerned for citizens to keep track of their purchases than for small merchants to try to keep track of the tax policies in every jurisdiction they might ship to. In fact, it's been alleged that one of the reasons Amazon flipped on the tax collection issue was to stick it to their smaller competitors -- it's much much easier for Amazon to develop the programming to automate tax collection across the jurisdictions than for their smaller competitors.
On line ? You can order stuff on line? Who da thunk...........Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970