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Warming Battle Over Online Taxes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taxman-cometh-and-he-is-irritable dept.

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."

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  1. eBay taxes... by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Does anyone know how eBay would start collecting taxes? Would they do it on the items full price? Or maybe just on fees that eBay collected? And/Or would each seller have to start collecting taxes on every item sold?

    I, for one, don't collect taxes when I'm running a garage sale.

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