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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. 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.

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

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

  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...