I hate to say it, but you're right. Most people are lazy and selfish. If they can save $0.05 on the latest trinket, they'll buy online instead of supporting their neighbors or lifting their extra large butt off the couch.
I don't know what "webservices" is or why that would matter. Online shopping carts already do sales tax calculations. Press a button and send data to Quickbooks. Press another button to pay everything. What part of this process are you not understanding?
However, the idea that a store should collect local sales tax regardless of nexus seems to exclusively hurt small online business owners who have no hope of paying for software to track the various state/city/county sales taxes
Uh, no. It's already done with payroll subscriptions. It's not prohibitively expensive. It's $200/year for payroll updates. It'd be included in all accounting packages pretty quickly, I'm guessing.
Currently, it's up to businesses to figure out all the different tax rates (or hire someone to do it) and apply them to their sales. For the small business, the only way they can realistically comply is to hire a company which collects and updates the tax rates and puts it into a database for them.
I would guess 75% of all US businesses use Quickbooks to do payroll because trying to deduct payroll taxes correctly is nearly impossible for the lay person. It's really not a big deal. Which reminds me....
What you're describing is called "bookkeeping". Any company that doesn't keep books is going to be audited out of existence by the IRS, and the owners will likely go to jail.
This is going to be a nightmare for retailers to keep up with, especially the little guys.
A bit of history... in the mid 20th century, adding machines called "computers" were created specifically to do large quantities of arithmetic calculations quickly and cheaply. Today, these "computers" still exist, but are much more advanced. Most wrist watches have the computing power to maintain a list of municipalities and tax rates. It ain't rocket science. Oh, and I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that every online vendor has one of these fancy "computers".
I'm wondering if anybody knows if IBM has a patent on employees having to ask to go to the bathroom. That was one of the more unique aspects of working at IBM, in my experience.
To say the market is saturated with fast desktops is an understatement. I haven't bought a new computer in about 20 years. My company runs on $200 off-lease/refurbished desktops and $400 off-lease servers. There's not a single new machine in the entire company because the owner doesn't see a point in a new computer. I tend to agree.
" Second, It ought not be the role of government to be deciding such things. What's more, who is to say what the increase in cost of health care is or even if it can be tied to car pollution or any other sort."
So then, whose responsibility is it when our air, soil, and water are all toxic? How does that minor problem get fixed?
I disagree completely. There's a world of difference between a person who attended college, and one who didn't or slept/partied through it. A good public University education is worth the price.
No, I think you're being a bit silly. No company is going to pay a developer to re-invent IP filtering and firewalling in every internal app. That's a massive, unnecessary expense.
Why would I care about this, or any other theft-prevention devices for a car (like a car alarm)? I have insurance. Everybody has insurance. If somebody wants or needs to steal my car, it's really not that big of a deal. Insurance will pay me, and I'll get another.
No, that's not true. Manufacturers are already looking at moving into various countries in Africa for the next population of near slave wage employees.
Because the publishers serve an important purpose, and DO add value to the proposition: editing and vetting. There's tons and tons and tons of independent, self-published "books" you can find on the Net today. Hundreds of thousands, maybe? Millions? Who knows? But, most of these will not be read or published because they're crap. Free crap is still crap.
This is a really, truly, stupid article. $300 off-the-shelf Quickbooks, which 90% of all US small businesses use, has been handling this kind of stuff for at least a decade, if not two.
In other news, I heard that a bug has been found in Windows! How is this going to be addressed? Is Microsoft going to have to send new CD's to everybody on the planet, and everybody will have to re-write all of their Word documents?!?
To the clueless: tax tables change constantly, and are updated via the Net every time "Pay Employees" is clicked.
I don't imply it, I state it explicitly. Why would anybody think they have a right to criticize something for free? If somebody is giving me something for free, and I don't like it, then I have the option to take it or leave it. I don't understand where the sense of entitlement comes from...
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I hate to say it, but you're right. Most people are lazy and selfish. If they can save $0.05 on the latest trinket, they'll buy online instead of supporting their neighbors or lifting their extra large butt off the couch.
You get what you pay for. Why are you bitching about crappy service at big box stores?
Wars and corporate handouts.
I don't know what "webservices" is or why that would matter. Online shopping carts already do sales tax calculations. Press a button and send data to Quickbooks. Press another button to pay everything. What part of this process are you not understanding?
However, the idea that a store should collect local sales tax regardless of nexus seems to exclusively hurt small online business owners who have no hope of paying for software to track the various state/city/county sales taxes
Uh, no. It's already done with payroll subscriptions. It's not prohibitively expensive. It's $200/year for payroll updates. It'd be included in all accounting packages pretty quickly, I'm guessing.
Currently, it's up to businesses to figure out all the different tax rates (or hire someone to do it) and apply them to their sales. For the small business, the only way they can realistically comply is to hire a company which collects and updates the tax rates and puts it into a database for them.
I would guess 75% of all US businesses use Quickbooks to do payroll because trying to deduct payroll taxes correctly is nearly impossible for the lay person. It's really not a big deal. Which reminds me....
What you're describing is called "bookkeeping". Any company that doesn't keep books is going to be audited out of existence by the IRS, and the owners will likely go to jail.
This is going to be a nightmare for retailers to keep up with, especially the little guys.
A bit of history... in the mid 20th century, adding machines called "computers" were created specifically to do large quantities of arithmetic calculations quickly and cheaply. Today, these "computers" still exist, but are much more advanced. Most wrist watches have the computing power to maintain a list of municipalities and tax rates. It ain't rocket science. Oh, and I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that every online vendor has one of these fancy "computers".
I'm wondering if anybody knows if IBM has a patent on employees having to ask to go to the bathroom. That was one of the more unique aspects of working at IBM, in my experience.
Since the 90s, the "Computer" business has been primarily consumer driven.
And this information comes from...?
To say the market is saturated with fast desktops is an understatement. I haven't bought a new computer in about 20 years. My company runs on $200 off-lease/refurbished desktops and $400 off-lease servers. There's not a single new machine in the entire company because the owner doesn't see a point in a new computer. I tend to agree.
Find out who made it toxic and sue then for the cost of cleanup.
Good luck with that.
Or, put your money where your mouth is and simply don't fly. That's what I do. Yeah, it's inconvenient, but it's either that, or go along with it.
Mass transit would help a large part of the population. Maybe not you, but it would help many, many people.
" Second, It ought not be the role of government to be deciding such things. What's more, who is to say what the increase in cost of health care is or even if it can be tied to car pollution or any other sort."
So then, whose responsibility is it when our air, soil, and water are all toxic? How does that minor problem get fixed?
I disagree completely. There's a world of difference between a person who attended college, and one who didn't or slept/partied through it. A good public University education is worth the price.
No, I think you're being a bit silly. No company is going to pay a developer to re-invent IP filtering and firewalling in every internal app. That's a massive, unnecessary expense.
... is still right twice a day. I think that applies here.
I still use OLE/ActiveX/COM every day. Works fine for me.
Why would I care about this, or any other theft-prevention devices for a car (like a car alarm)? I have insurance. Everybody has insurance. If somebody wants or needs to steal my car, it's really not that big of a deal. Insurance will pay me, and I'll get another.
Soon only India will be left as cheap labor.
No, that's not true. Manufacturers are already looking at moving into various countries in Africa for the next population of near slave wage employees.
why should I pay for one?
Because the publishers serve an important purpose, and DO add value to the proposition: editing and vetting. There's tons and tons and tons of independent, self-published "books" you can find on the Net today. Hundreds of thousands, maybe? Millions? Who knows? But, most of these will not be read or published because they're crap. Free crap is still crap.
This is a really, truly, stupid article. $300 off-the-shelf Quickbooks, which 90% of all US small businesses use, has been handling this kind of stuff for at least a decade, if not two.
In other news, I heard that a bug has been found in Windows! How is this going to be addressed? Is Microsoft going to have to send new CD's to everybody on the planet, and everybody will have to re-write all of their Word documents?!?
To the clueless: tax tables change constantly, and are updated via the Net every time "Pay Employees" is clicked.
I don't imply it, I state it explicitly. Why would anybody think they have a right to criticize something for free? If somebody is giving me something for free, and I don't like it, then I have the option to take it or leave it. I don't understand where the sense of entitlement comes from...
I do not trust them anymore that they won't pull the same stunt with MY personal account.
Why would you trust that they wouldn't do that in the first place? It's a FREE account. You get what you pay for.