Colorado Use Tax?

[ray1970]

I think Colorado should just try and collect their taxes from out of state vendors directly. We'll see how that works out for them.

Fortunately for me I never order anything online.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I think Colorado should just try and collect their taxes from out of state vendors directly. We'll see how that works out for them.

Fortunately for me I never order anything online.

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.

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.

[SideShow Bob]

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Fortunately for me I never order anything online.

On line ? You can order stuff on line? Who da thunk...........