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Warming Battle Over Online Taxes
mackertm writes "The NYT (free registration, blah blah) has an interesting story about the fight over Internet taxation. A coalition of states and some big clicks-and-mortar retailers are leading the charge to simplify the process of collecting taxes online. Amazon, Dell, and eBay are the biggest pure e-tailers resisting this movement. It's fun to see Amazon try and talk about how difficult it would be to implement taxes for all states, when it's already doing it for Target and Toys 'R Us."
"Clicks and mortar"? "E-tailers"? That alone was enough to keep me from reading the article.
Texas is finally getting the internet!?
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Wow, I thought this day would never come. I thought all them rednecks would just be sittin' there talking about their "inner net" (inner netting on shorts), for decades
Two words: Customs Duties.
... they might go missing.
Painful! And plus they might search your stuff, so no purchasing of illicit materials or sex toys
I, for one, don't collect taxes when I'm running a garage sale.
The IRS has been notified of your fraud. Have a nice day.
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So there I was; 15 years old, naive and about to go on my first date where sex was involved. I went to the pharmacy and asked the man for condoms. "Here you go, that will be 5 dollars plus 70 cents for the tax." the pharmacist said. I replied "Tacks? So that's how those things are held on."
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