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Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases?
theodp writes "Over the next week, taxpayers in 19 states will be confronting new sections on state returns that ask them to fork over unpaid sales taxes for items purchased out of state, including Internet transactions. A NY Daily News editorial characterized the addition of use tax to state returns as a rip-off and advised taxpayers to fill in a zero on the line, although an accountant suggests doing so may even be worse than just leaving it blank and put you on the line for tax fraud."
You're such a good little Starbucks/Wal-Mart/McDonalds/Microsoft/Amazon/eBay consumer aren't you?
Roads, the Internet, basic scientific research, education, unemployment, national defense, police, firefighters, food safety regulation, zoning enforcement, environmental safety regulations, occupational safety regulations, the 40 hour work week, parks, and the list goes on.
Anti-tax wingnuts amaze me, because they seem to think that nothing they use is touched by the government, when in reality, government is responsible for the vast majority of the things that make life for most people livable, and not some 19th century poorhouse sweatshop hell.
Point and Counterpoint: The Tick - "Spoon!" Neo - "There is no spoon."
If you're paying the 38% tax rate, that means you're in the highest income bracket. That means you can afford it a hell of a lot better than someone in the lowest income bracket. If you REALLY want a burden, try supporting a family of 4 or 5 on an income of $25 a year.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
As a brick & mortar retailer, I'm sick and tired of losing businesses to cheapskates who want to shave a few pennies off, and don't give a damn about the businesses they choose to support or not to support.
Translation:
I'm a whiny bitch who thinks that I deserve special treatment. People shouldn't have the right to buy cheaper goods at a lower price from someone else, because it hurts me.
Of course, there's nothing stopping me from setting up my own online business........oh wait I already have!
Surely I'm reporting all the money that people spend to their respective states, otherwise I'd be a hypocritical jackass.....
Life is too short to proofread.