States To Try Taxation Of The Net Again

kimbermatic writes "From the Denver Post comes this article that the states are ready to try and tax the internet sales once more. The poor economy is sending the 'hounds' sniffing for more money. An interesting, and alarming read if your interested in protecting online merchants from this taxation plan." 'though it's not really online sales that are the big ones people want -- it's catalog mail order sales, which are still much bigger then online sales.

Comments

You already should be paying these taxes

[Waffle Iron]

In most states, the law says that if you order goods from out of state, then it is your responsibility to report and pay the "use tax". If you aren't doing that already, you're a common criminal.

If you order a CD from Amazon and don't pay your use tax, you're cheating your state out of more money than the artist would lose if you downloaded the CD from Napster.

Don't try to rationalize. You're all thieves. Bow your heads in shame.

(I have to make myself stop here. It's just too fun to spew out righteous indignation.)

Re:You already should be paying these taxes

[Skyshadow]

Watch out -- I hear the states are going to hire Jack Valenti to come after us.

Re:You already should be paying these taxes

[Flakeloaf]

Don't try to rationalize. You're all thieves. Bow your heads in shame.

(I have to make myself stop here. It's just too fun to spew out righteous indignation.)

Well the LEAST you could have done is leave some righteous indignation for the rest of us! When you use the words "your" and "you're" in the same sentence, and use them correctly, you rob the rest of us of a valuable opportunity here!

Enough

[drhairston]

Can anyone put forward a well-reasoned argument why the Internet should be exempt to sales tax? Every other method of interaction in the world - from face-to-face transactions to mail order to telephone sales - is governed by state statues which tax that commerce. Is the Internet exempt simply because it is 'too cool' or 'over the head of stuffy old lawmakers'?

Perhaps taxation laws are merely over the heads of overexcited teenagers.

Re:C'mon

[Masami Eiri]

Hey, don't joke about that. My hometown is trying to pass a law that says you have to pay $15 or something to hold a yard/garage sale, and can only have a maximum of 2 per year.