Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

MA Requires Internet Tax for 2002 Tax Season

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-statism dept.

Flamesplash writes "Yahoo! is running this story about how Taxachusetts has added an "internet" tax to it's 2002 state forms, 'this year's income tax form will have a new line item -- asking you to estimate and pay the sales tax on items you've purchased from out of state.' It should be noted that 'the law has been on the books since 1967. But only car and boat owners registering their vehicles in Massachusetts paid.'"

3 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. North Carolina by doug · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For years we've had an item on our income taxes for anything bought out of state and no sales tax was paid. As I understand it, this was put in place because of catalog sales, but they specifically mention online shopping now. The idea is that if you haven't paid anyone sales tax for those good, income tax time is a good time to pay 6.5% (now 7%) to Raleigh.

    The kicker is that if you don't have receipts, they estimate your out-of-state purchases at 1% of your gross income.

    I hope that this nonsense goes the way of the "intangibles tax" fiasco, but as of last year it was still on the books. I guess I should check this year's forms to see if it still around.

  2. Yea! Taxes! by imsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    There just aren't enough taxes out there, we should get as many as we can.

    I hope that my State does the same damn thing, in fact, I hope they set up direct deposit so I can pay them all my money for a small fee.

    Next up, distributed treasury services, where all your accounts are just part of the State's accounts! Yea boyo, that would be just swell. :)

  3. Safe, unless... by waytoomuchcoffee · · Score: 4, Funny

    As long as they don't tie this together with the World's most accurate lie detector I will be Ok...