Welcome to the Colorado AR-15 Shooters Club Discussion Forums.
Also, it doesn't have to be perfect. These jurisdictions have no idea what is going on. It just has to be consistent, with your best effort to pay the proper jurisdictions the taxes they require.
For Colorado, I think, this is a free resource that helps you identify tax districts
https://portal.taxify.co/Web/Public/CO.aspx
Remember that you are only remitting the taxes you have collected.
Try to collect the taxes right, and remit what you collect.
Nobody will come after you.
And forgive me, but mail order companies should absolutely be required to collect and remit taxes.
Local businesses have to collect and remit taxes. Fuck Mail Order.
Last edited by arbol; 09-22-2021 at 18:36.
I think that is the point.Originally Posted by arbol
I'd never get anything.
Stella - my best girl ever.
11/04/1994 - 12/23/2010
Don't wanna get shot by the police?
"Stop Resisting Arrest!"
Do you like small businesses?
Because I don't think you understand how that process works. Colorado for instance, requires you to file a return for each and every jurisdiction. So no, you're not collecting and remitting taxes to the State of Colorado....
Open a small "mail order" business you despise and suddenly you may need hundreds of sales tax licenses and you need to file HUNDREDS of sales tax returns just in CO, likely quarterly, much less other states. Meanwhile, your competitors (Amazon, Walmart) have that fully automated. So yeah, Walmart was lobbying for what you agree with because it's actually helpful to their online sector, as it is to Amazon. Helps limit entry of any new market competitors - whether a small business does the returns all themselves (and have no time at all left to do business) or hire a third party company to do it, they can't ever get to a place where they are competitive, because the big guys do it for next to no additional overhead at all.
Last edited by FoxtArt; 09-22-2021 at 20:41.
I've run a small business before, and collected and remitted sales taxes. I have lost business to the mail order companies, due to the fact that they don't have to collect and remit taxes.
It's not hard to automate things. Takes some setup time etc. I don't care if it is 100s, or 1000s of different sales tax jurisdictions.
What is hard to compete against, is when one entity does not have to collect or remit sales taxes at all.
Last edited by arbol; 09-22-2021 at 20:50.
The difference is that your small local business only had to worry about tax codes and remitting paperwork to a single city, a single county, a single state. Mail order has to keep track of the ever-changing tax codes and policies in every taxable jurisdiction they sell to. Automatiion helps but yeah, they're going to have to keep that database AND the software updated constantly because individual cities and counties change their policies frequently -- and they often don't publish those changes outside their local venue. You have to make sure your item database has everything coded right -- this product is considered a food product in county A and therefore not taxed but it IS taxed in county B. County C doesn't tax food products but doesn't consider this to be food. State D doesn't care because they tax food products...
False. Zero local infrastructure or services are used to support that sale. If I bought the good in a sales tax free jurisdiction why does Denver get to tax it? Tax should be collected at point of sale, not point of delivery. Fvck greedy taxing jurisdictions. And I will never pay use tax to this undeserving state.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote