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California Senate Approves Net Tax Bill

Posted by timothy on from the taxation-taxation-taxation dept.

Grant Erickson points to this internet.com story, which says "On Thursday, the California state Senate approved a bill that requires businesses with stores in the state to charge their customers sales tax for purchases made over the Internet." The state's huge ($35 billion) budget deficit is named as a driving force for the measure.

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  1. Ahhh, legislators... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They'll tax anything except their brains.

    1. Re:Ahhh, legislators... by greechneb · · Score: 3, Funny

      You can't tax something that doesn't exist ;)

  2. Re:moving on out? by yintercept · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think California figures that it is simply too difficult to move a web site. Once you get all of those internet requests aimed at a particular state, ecommerce aren't going to just dig up and move their address. Think of all the heavy machinery and man power it would take to point a domain from one state to another!!!

    It is interesting to see California leading the way to in the sales tax fray...since the net has done a pretty good job of transferring wealth from other states in Ca. Only in the last year have other states begun making good inroads onto the web.

  3. Move your sites to Montana! by greenskyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    We don't have any damn sales tax. If you really want to avoid it move all your company here, all six of us could use a job...

  4. This will DESTROY all the .Com's share Value! by Jboy_24 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quick... pull all your money from eToys, cdNow, inkTomi and the like before they dive under $100/share!

  5. Sales Tax on Shipping and Handling by IBitOBear · · Score: 2, Funny

    I *STILL* can not figure out how Amazon.com thinks is is approprate to charge sales tax on the Shipping And Handling portion of my purchase.

    When I contacted their web sites address for such inquiries I receive absolutely no response.

    --
    Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
    --"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
  6. Re:That is the sound of inevitability.... by demaria · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think his argument is that republican political ads cause recessions. ;-)