Internet sales tax coming soon to all states

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The dirty little secret is compliance is going to end up being more expensive than the actual sales tax.

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The dirty little secret is compliance is going to end up being more expensive than the actual sales tax.

Many already were. After Amazon's behavior, this decision is pretty much meaningless. The fear of being sued by a state and forced data disclosure was enough. Definition of nexus was kind of meaningless, as are most laws now.

So merely being a citizen of a state entitles the state to a cut of all transactions. If there are billing/shipping addresses in different states the can now fight over that.

Good news is that, just like Trump's tax reform, this creates visibility into state/local taxes and hits a lot of Libs where it hurts. Trump admin also supported this decision.

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Many already were. After Amazon's behavior, this decision is pretty much meaningless. The fear of being sued by a state and forced data disclosure was enough. Definition of nexus was kind of meaningless, as are most laws now.

So merely being a citizen of a state entitles the state to a cut of all transactions. If there are billing/shipping addresses in different states the can now fight over that.

Good news is that, just like Trump's tax reform, this creates visibility into state/local taxes and hits a lot of Libs where it hurts. Trump admin also supported this decision.

Exactly, this has been the case for sites like Amazon for a while already. All this does is codify the pre-existing behavior.

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The dirty little secret is compliance is going to end up being more expensive than the actual sales tax.

If you mean more than the tax collected. Agree. They'll use TAXPAYER dollars to chase after more tax revenue to fund their ponzi scheme.