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2 hour waits only to find you're no longer registered. Florida 2000.

Thing is, it's no longer 2000 and you can instantly check your registration status online by plugging in your first name, last name, and date of birth. I concede that would still require things like planning ahead, turning off the TV for a few minutes, and so on. The Supreme Court has been clear that people have a right to vote without substantial burden, not without any burden at all.

This is true: the states have for years been selling this same infomatin to interested parties. Well, my state, Florida, gives it away for free, but most sell it for cheap. The whole vote fraud inquiry could have been handled quietly by both sides or even hidden by shell corp requests for data (have an NGO request the data and donate it), but both sides wanted to turn thisinto a screaming match. That's all it is: a public distraction with two positions around which Ds and Rs can gather to whip up their respective echo chambers.

There are already mechanisms in place for solving problems: politics isn't about solving problems but about generating new ones that touch the heart and inspire true believers to give their loyalty ti the parties. The advertising-driven press is complicit in this, since it seeks to amplify the parties' calls for supporters in order to increase its own ad revenue.

Voter roles are public information. link to get them. Or Here for information on it.

I think you are quickly taking the position of the literally dumbest person posting to /. now. And that is QUITE a feat.

You have been told this specific information at least 10 times over the last 2 months, yet you keep repeating your lies. That makes you pretty much the least credible person there is here. I might think you might just be an alt account for creimer, but at least creimer doesn't repeat stupid shit once its pointed out to him. So that makes you even dumber than creimer.

I wouldn't be too quick to throw Florida in as a "liberal" state. Granted, it went to Obama this time, but only by a razor-thin margin (49.14% to 50%) [citation supplied], and they went D for the senate seat that was up, but 15 of the 22 "opposed" representative races went to republicans, and it's pretty red at the state level, too.

It's not standardized across the US, but many states have standards for emergency radios. Find out what's standard and go with it.

One of the more useful projects of Homeland Security is to get all the agencies that have first responders connected in emergencies. It's hard, because each agency has their own system and they don't interoperate. Here's the Texas plan. And the Florida plan.

Most of the hard problems have to do with too many people on the air in urban areas. If you're a volunteer department, you're probably not in an urban area and don't have that problem. If you want something that will Just Work, get high-powered 700MHz public safety band capable VHF FM handhelds and vehicle radios for your own people and get them fitted into your state plan. A few Iridium satellite radios for command personnel and those who really need to talk to the outside world during an incident are helpful. Here's one suitable for fire truck installation. Iridium airtime costs are high, about $1.29 per minute, but in an emergency that's the least of your problems.)

Are you kidding?

Nope. I've never heard of this. Now maybe I just had my head under the sand all this time, but I'd still like to read an article from a reputable source that backs this claim. That's not too much trouble is it?

Not at all. Short summary. Your state might (or might not) require you to write a check for an unpaid sale/use tax (specific to your state and county) whenever you order something online (unless the seller/retailer collects that tax for you.) An even shorter summary: if the seller (either in person, online or through a sales/order magazine) doesn't collect a sale/use tax from your purchase, chances are you are obligated - by the laws of your location - to calculate that tax and mail it to your local/state tax collection agency.

Google to the rescue:

At the federal level, with the onus on the seller:

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/article/0,,id=209348,00.html

Internet Sales are Taxable Misinformation about laws such as the prohibition of the taxation of Internet access (Internet Tax Freedom Act) and limiting sales tax on interstate sales have lead some to incorrectly believe that Internet sales income is not subject to income tax.

An online business may be subject to liabilities for income tax, self-employment tax, employment tax, or excise tax. Your sales may result in capital gains, nondeductible personal losses, or you may have ordinary business income.

At the state/local level, similar sales taxes on income might apply to an online seller. In addition to that (and unlike the federal level), a state or local government might require a *sales* or *use* taxes on the purchaser (including on online purchases of items), *and might require the seller* to collect that on the state/county's behalf. In our case here in FL, we pay a between 6% and 7% depending on the county.

http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/taxes/sales_tax.html

Sales Tax

Each sale, admission charge, storage, or rental is taxable unless the transaction is exempt. Sales tax is added to the price of the taxable goods or service and collected from the purchaser at the time of sale. Florida's general sales tax rate is 6 percent.

Use Tax

Use tax is due on the use or consumption of taxable goods or services when sales tax was not paid at the time of purchase. For example:

If you buy a taxable item in Florida and didn't pay sales tax, you owe use tax.

If you buy an item tax-exempt intending to resell it and then use the item in your business or for personal use, you owe use tax.

If you buy a taxable item outside Florida and bring or have it delivered into this state and you didn't pay sales tax on the item, you owe use tax.

Although this particular, state-specific tax regulation does not make any explicit mentioning of online sales or purchases, it is inclusive for all state sales and purchases unless explicitly stated as exempt.

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-08-11/story/florida-wants-collect-its-sales-tax-online-buys

Just because there isn't a Florida sales tax charge on certain online purchases doesn't mean the buyer doesn't owe the tax. Though many buyers don't know it, they are on the hook to scratch a check to Tallahassee for 6 percent of the purchase or pay it online. Consumers voluntarily paid about $8.7 million last year - pennies on the dollar compared to the $1 billion to $2 billion some estimate goes uncollected every year.

Still, the chance of Fl

This might help you: http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/consumer/

When giving a state-specific answer, please also say the state your answer applies to.

When reading a potentially state-specific answer in a thread about a particular state, please assume that the answer applies to the state which is the subject of the thread.

For example, in Florida where I live, if you buy something by mailorder (including internet purchases of real physical items) and the vendor does not charge you sales tax, you are required by state law to file and pay proper sales tax at the end of the calendar year.

That's use tax, not sales tax.

There is already taxes collected on *anything* that ships.

Unless it is a download only item (software for example) taxes or other fees are paid on *at least* all of the following:
- Sales and excise tax on fuel for the truck moving the product
- IFTA fees
- Apportioned vehicle resigistration fees
- Property taxes paid by warehouse facilities of shipping company
- Income taxes paid by shipping company

This is what came to mind off the top of my head. These are specifically taxes associated with *shipping* the product. You're now paying on top of that as well if they enact interstate sales taxes. I realize that any product purchased in a retail location paid many of these same taxes (via shipping costs) as well, but the point still stands - folks are already paying on this.

Plus the single most important part of all this - everyone who lives in a sales tax state pays Use Taxes (FL), right? :)

if the catalog company is in Maine and you are in Florida, then you don't pay Jack Schitt for taxes

Oh but if you live in Florida, I used to, you may be legally required to pay a use tax. Florida has no income tax so there's a special form that's supposed to be filled out. Other states have a line on their income tax forms where people are supposed to list what they bought from out of state.

Again, show me some, any, evidence that states can indeed hold copyright.

How about Florida?

I don't know about that. I would expect Verizon to have a commercial stake in giving the government whatever information it wants. I know for sure on the state level Verizon gets numerous contracts (e.g. Florida), I would expect it has a commercial stake in government contracts as well...

To make it even more complicated, some places (for example, Florida) have short periods (usually a week) where there are no sales taxes on certian types of items.

For example, in the fall there is usually a week around the time before school starts where school supplies are exempt from sales tax. Currently, in preparation for the hurricane season, certain hurricane supplies are exempt from sales tax.

One of the reasons for ditching the Articles of Confederation was that it didn't give the federal government any power to regulate interstate commerce, so you had serious issues with states in that respect.

The federal government (through Congress) now has the power to "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." U.S. Const. Art. 1 Sec. 8.

As far as the instance at hand here, most states have had use taxes on out of state purchases for quite some time. I would be surprised if it had not already been challenged and upheld.

I located this page which provides some good information on the details of Florida's use tax on out-of-state purchases.

Most states don't bother to pursue collecting these taxes because the cost to collect is much greater than the benefit of the tax they receive.

ahh yes my friend you see it very simple really when you think about it. you could outsource to somewhere like Florida or Boston.

come on /. what's next on this goddamn forum?

"excuse me but we in bangladesh were wondering if you could ever so kindly sho us how to do a hip replacement?

www.myflorida.com/dor/rules/12a19substitute.pdf

No Good. I'd have to move to Delaware to fully take advantage of that. I _think_ Florida has a better tax climate for individuals. Delaware definitely has a plus over FL for businesses.

Here in Florida, the purchaser is required to report sales tax on all goods purchased from a foriegn corporation (i.e. a corporation in a different county or state).
See for yourself: Florida DOR

I'll be routing 9% of my packets to Florida Department of Revenue from now on. You should too.

re: Reedy Creek Improvement District.

However I suspect it was sarcasm as I think Disney had a hand in authoring the act.

www.myflorida.com is a site by the state of Florida that places all of their government services under one site to make it easier for the Floridian. While I don't have much of a need for government services right now, I still find it might be pretty convenient to have around should I need services in the future.