The Streamlined Sales Tax and its supporting organization is truly a bizzar thing. www.streamlinedsalestax.org
Who is behind this? State Governments and large multinational retailers (wal-mart)
Why?
States are interested in any new source of money. The primary states that are pushing this tax are net importing states. Only 15 relatively small states have passed fully joined this cartel. They see their citizens buying things online and want the sales tax. These states are unwilling to collect use taxes directly from their citizens, so they want to force businesses to collect the tax for them. PROBLEM: It's illegal.. Thats right boys and girls, the Supreme Court has ruled, in Quill v ND that states dont have any authority to force an out-of-state retailer to collect its sales tax, if the business doesnt have a physical presence in the state. Ultimately these states need congressional approval.
Business: It cost money, and a lot of it to comply with all the various sales tax laws throughout the U.S. The same candy bar that is taxable in one Wal-Mart store isnt in another just accross the state border or city limit line. Additionally, each state crawls up a business' backside regularly with costly audits. Simply making uniform the definitions of products accross all jurisdictions and limiting the number of sales tax audits would save the business community millions. BUT WAIT, THERE's MORE: The way the SST is set up now, these states hungry for new sales tax revenue on internet purchase have offered to PAY the wal-marts of the world to collect these new taxes.
At the end of the day, ask yourself these questions: After my next internet transaction, who has more of my money, me or the government. I hate to quote Dick Armey, but he had a good one where the SST is concerned. he called it: "Streamlining a path to your Wallet"
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Who is behind this? State Governments and large multinational retailers (wal-mart)
Why? States are interested in any new source of money. The primary states that are pushing this tax are net importing states. Only 15 relatively small states have passed fully joined this cartel. They see their citizens buying things online and want the sales tax. These states are unwilling to collect use taxes directly from their citizens, so they want to force businesses to collect the tax for them. PROBLEM: It's illegal.. Thats right boys and girls, the Supreme Court has ruled, in Quill v ND that states dont have any authority to force an out-of-state retailer to collect its sales tax, if the business doesnt have a physical presence in the state. Ultimately these states need congressional approval.
Business: It cost money, and a lot of it to comply with all the various sales tax laws throughout the U.S. The same candy bar that is taxable in one Wal-Mart store isnt in another just accross the state border or city limit line. Additionally, each state crawls up a business' backside regularly with costly audits. Simply making uniform the definitions of products accross all jurisdictions and limiting the number of sales tax audits would save the business community millions. BUT WAIT, THERE's MORE: The way the SST is set up now, these states hungry for new sales tax revenue on internet purchase have offered to PAY the wal-marts of the world to collect these new taxes.
At the end of the day, ask yourself these questions: After my next internet transaction, who has more of my money, me or the government. I hate to quote Dick Armey, but he had a good one where the SST is concerned. he called it: "Streamlining a path to your Wallet"