Section (a)(2)(D)(ii) says "Provide --... (ii) software free of charge for remote sellers that calculates sales and use taxes due on each transaction at the time the transaction is completed, that files sames and use tax returns, and that is updated to reflect rate changes as described in subparagrah (H);..."
There appears to be no requirement that software be:
Suitable for high reliability in a high volume retailer web site
Be properly supported by the software provider
Be able to support the variety of software systems and operating systems in use (even if separate software for each system)
Be able to be audited by having full verifiable source code available for retailers that audit their software
There is a distinct possibility that no compatible software will be available for some retailers as a result of this. What are those retailers to do?
Also, who pays the software developer? It's free to the retailers so that means the states pay for it. The software is required to be usable for all states and that appears to imply one single software component used across the board. What if a retailer gets the software from one state but uses it for the others?
I disagree. Congress has the sole right to pass laws regarding interstate commerce. The Constitution does not narrow what laws Congress may pass in this regard. This law Congress is working on is an authorization under their authority.
More specifically, this new law would favor brick and mortar stores by allowing those stores to collect tax from OUT OF STATE people... and at the WRONG RATE. Sure, we have been allowing stores to do just that all along. The meaning here is that the stores ARE doing this as a tax based on the STORE location, rather than the BUYER location. To be fair, the exact same thing needs to be applied to internet stores. Further, there is no tracking required of mortar stores. But some proposals for internet stores require providing buyer lists to the state along with the tax collections.
I'm not opposed to collection of these taxes. I'm opposed to the shear utter stupidity of the politicians who are trying to implement it so stupidly.
My proposal is this. All retailers may choose to participate. For each sale made with any kind of bank payment card, the retailer submits the charge to their merchant processor with a list of each item classification (for where tax rates vary by product class) code and how much the price is for each code. This is passed along to the consumer bank which MUST add the consumer's local tax rate (which they can have on file already for each consumer account after the first such transaction). The consumer's bank from which the credit or debit card is served has easy access to this information about the consumer's tax jurisdiction. Cash sales would still be done as they have been before.
The advantage is that both internet and mortar stores can use this same system and cut out the cost of processing these taxes. The banks have to pick it up, but their costs will be lower because they are working with a finite base of consumers that they already have information about (store a jurisdiction code for each account that indexes a table of product class rates for that jurisdiction). The net result is a total lower cost by the shift of processing... and fairness.
Earlier this year, a French civil court ruled that Twitter needed to identify any users that posted hateful or anti-Semitic messages; on Wednesday, the Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) sued Twitter [2] for roughly $50 million, claiming the San Francisco-based social network failed to honor that court ruling.
The whole concept of making everyone in every country liable to every other country's laws is just a farce. The French judges who make these rulings are a farce and they turn the whole country of France into a farce. There's no way the world can be safe if this kind of farce is allowed to happen.
In the US a judge that would make such a ruling would be subject to sanctions. So these stupid French judges need to be taken to USA and made subject to the sanctions. A year in jail in a prison in Texas sounds good to me. And they get to work on the chain gang.
People have been getting the plans (designs), and the means, to build their own guns for as long as guns have been around. What's changed is the level of technology. And that's changed in everything.
I would have told them what my rate is for short term consulting on an availability basis. Like $300 hour if I'm not busy. Offer me more to make me not busy.
We have the "End Call" button. We just need an app that adds "Hung up" and "Hang up hard" buttons, that insert the sound of a legacy phone receiver hitting the holder. The app needs to randomize these sounds, otherwise a "Hang up silencer" app will come out. Well, it probably will, anyway. And we'll probably end up with a market in "hang up sounds", like spitting, laughing, mooing, etc.
In this new interview, he's critical of a general public silence over government encroachments on privacy
That is an important issue. But what I see is an even greater silence over corporate encroachment on privacy. Left alone, I think corporations could cause even greater damage (in part because of it's huge influence on government). So this is where I focus my efforts. Things like big banks sharing out financial details... just for profit.
I'm not commenting about Obamacare (yet). Just saying, use the mechanism they are trying to use... repeal legislation.
But since you seem to want comment... I'm opposed to Obamacare because I want true, genuine, real socialized medicine... at least like what Sweden has. There, I said it. Now back to unlocking the phones.
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Section (a)(2)(D)(ii) says "Provide -- ... (ii) software free of charge for remote sellers that calculates sales and use taxes due on each transaction at the time the transaction is completed, that files sames and use tax returns, and that is updated to reflect rate changes as described in subparagrah (H); ..."
There appears to be no requirement that software be:
There is a distinct possibility that no compatible software will be available for some retailers as a result of this. What are those retailers to do?
Also, who pays the software developer? It's free to the retailers so that means the states pay for it. The software is required to be usable for all states and that appears to imply one single software component used across the board. What if a retailer gets the software from one state but uses it for the others?
I disagree. Congress has the sole right to pass laws regarding interstate commerce. The Constitution does not narrow what laws Congress may pass in this regard. This law Congress is working on is an authorization under their authority.
More specifically, this new law would favor brick and mortar stores by allowing those stores to collect tax from OUT OF STATE people ... and at the WRONG RATE. Sure, we have been allowing stores to do just that all along. The meaning here is that the stores ARE doing this as a tax based on the STORE location, rather than the BUYER location. To be fair, the exact same thing needs to be applied to internet stores. Further, there is no tracking required of mortar stores. But some proposals for internet stores require providing buyer lists to the state along with the tax collections.
I'm not opposed to collection of these taxes. I'm opposed to the shear utter stupidity of the politicians who are trying to implement it so stupidly.
My proposal is this. All retailers may choose to participate. For each sale made with any kind of bank payment card, the retailer submits the charge to their merchant processor with a list of each item classification (for where tax rates vary by product class) code and how much the price is for each code. This is passed along to the consumer bank which MUST add the consumer's local tax rate (which they can have on file already for each consumer account after the first such transaction). The consumer's bank from which the credit or debit card is served has easy access to this information about the consumer's tax jurisdiction. Cash sales would still be done as they have been before.
The advantage is that both internet and mortar stores can use this same system and cut out the cost of processing these taxes. The banks have to pick it up, but their costs will be lower because they are working with a finite base of consumers that they already have information about (store a jurisdiction code for each account that indexes a table of product class rates for that jurisdiction). The net result is a total lower cost by the shift of processing ... and fairness.
In the state tax office in the capitol city, someone blurts out "WTF is bitcoin ?"
I was planning to buy one soon, but it was a GoPro one and now I'm boycotting GoPro.
... that can be downloaded of this thing? Formats like dirac, mp2, mp4, ogg theora, vp8, are fine. I need to play it in mplayer.
Earlier this year, a French civil court ruled that Twitter needed to identify any users that posted hateful or anti-Semitic messages; on Wednesday, the Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) sued Twitter [2] for roughly $50 million, claiming the San Francisco-based social network failed to honor that court ruling.
The whole concept of making everyone in every country liable to every other country's laws is just a farce. The French judges who make these rulings are a farce and they turn the whole country of France into a farce. There's no way the world can be safe if this kind of farce is allowed to happen.
In the US a judge that would make such a ruling would be subject to sanctions. So these stupid French judges need to be taken to USA and made subject to the sanctions. A year in jail in a prison in Texas sounds good to me. And they get to work on the chain gang.
Most languages should never be anyone's first language. C++ is one of them.
OK ... I'll volunteer to update C99 if you take C11.
... what was going on 1 attosecond BEFORE the big bang actually popped. I suspect there was leaking condom involved.
People have been getting the plans (designs), and the means, to build their own guns for as long as guns have been around. What's changed is the level of technology. And that's changed in everything.
... 1 watt blue laser isn't a hazard. And the 2 watt UV one is even less so.
... one industry wants to create a distribution monopoly by controlling everything, and eliminating competition.
I would have told them what my rate is for short term consulting on an availability basis. Like $300 hour if I'm not busy. Offer me more to make me not busy.
I didn't think so. It's not in mine, either. Documenting is, though, so I'd let the newbie learn to read.
Wasn't back in 1776 or so, either. But at least Britain does not pretend to be free and open.
We have the "End Call" button. We just need an app that adds "Hung up" and "Hang up hard" buttons, that insert the sound of a legacy phone receiver hitting the holder. The app needs to randomize these sounds, otherwise a "Hang up silencer" app will come out. Well, it probably will, anyway. And we'll probably end up with a market in "hang up sounds", like spitting, laughing, mooing, etc.
Are you talking about West Virginia?
In this new interview, he's critical of a general public silence over government encroachments on privacy
That is an important issue. But what I see is an even greater silence over corporate encroachment on privacy. Left alone, I think corporations could cause even greater damage (in part because of it's huge influence on government). So this is where I focus my efforts. Things like big banks sharing out financial details ... just for profit.
... always use independent measuring. Corporations, even in EU, have people at the helm that are fundamental liars.
Which is what other corporations do, too.
I'm not commenting about Obamacare (yet). Just saying, use the mechanism they are trying to use ... repeal legislation.
But since you seem to want comment ... I'm opposed to Obamacare because I want true, genuine, real socialized medicine ... at least like what Sweden has. There, I said it. Now back to unlocking the phones.
To celebrate Pi day, try performing this division:
4427007044615115050034854648525685871587 / 1409160108506276783085718440252375099653
Give a man a fish ... or teach him how to fish.
Change the treaty terms. Tell South Korea to agree to the changes or the whole deal is off. Oh, and about those troops we have in your land ...