I work for a huge mailorder computer company where all orders are placed either online or over the phone. In terms of charging sales tax, the rules are as follows:
1. States that have no sales tax are obviously exempt from paying taxes online, regardless of business presence in that state, and;
2. If the corporation has a "business presence" in that state ( any form of "business" - kiosk, finance, manufacturing, etc., regardless of it not being retail), the IRS requires us to collect tax in that state - if the computer is being shipped to that state.
Therefore, a consumer can have the system shipped to any state in the U.S., including tax-exempt states. I am curious to see how this will all pan out. It seems like the IRS only wants to use scare tactics and threats based on non-existent previous "laws" in which consumers were not taxed online. Basically, if your state participates in this new "law", it will be "forgiven" for not having charged sales tax for online purchases all these previous years, although there was NEVER a tax law in place; if you don't participate, you are going to be audited and penalized, although no laws were broken for not charging taxes.
This is unlawful and unconstitutional!!!!!! You cannot be charged for something that was not a crime in the past just because the IRS has now decided that it was - the law doesn't work that way! Wake up, read your Bill of Rights, and fight back!
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I work for a huge mailorder computer company where all orders are placed either online or over the phone. In terms of charging sales tax, the rules are as follows: 1. States that have no sales tax are obviously exempt from paying taxes online, regardless of business presence in that state, and; 2. If the corporation has a "business presence" in that state ( any form of "business" - kiosk, finance, manufacturing, etc., regardless of it not being retail), the IRS requires us to collect tax in that state - if the computer is being shipped to that state. Therefore, a consumer can have the system shipped to any state in the U.S., including tax-exempt states. I am curious to see how this will all pan out. It seems like the IRS only wants to use scare tactics and threats based on non-existent previous "laws" in which consumers were not taxed online. Basically, if your state participates in this new "law", it will be "forgiven" for not having charged sales tax for online purchases all these previous years, although there was NEVER a tax law in place; if you don't participate, you are going to be audited and penalized, although no laws were broken for not charging taxes. This is unlawful and unconstitutional!!!!!! You cannot be charged for something that was not a crime in the past just because the IRS has now decided that it was - the law doesn't work that way! Wake up, read your Bill of Rights, and fight back!