High Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax

[Scout26]

24 posts and I'm the first to say it:

Taxation is Theft.


 

[just Warren]

Theftation is taxt!

[Pb]

I"m not seeing how it constitutional to let a state force someone in another state to comply with their tax laws.  What a mess this is going to be.

[Scout26]

It can be used in a national reciprocity case along with Obergefell.

[RocketMan]

The only way this can be changed is through federal legislation.  However, given our political betters insatiable thirst for tax dollars, I don't see any such change happening.

[KD5NRH]

I live in NH.  We don't have sales tax, so this ruling won't affect purchasers in NH, but it may affect NH businesses that ship out-of-state.  One of our Senators is bitching about this ruling, which I find hilarious because she is a flaming liberal and is usually in favor of more taxes.

What they need to do is push hard to get a ruling that the tax that applies is the seller's; it makes more sense that way anyway.  If I go to mom's house out out of town and order a pizza, I still have to pay 8.25% tax (6.25 state and 2.0 city) instead of 6.25%, so it certainly appears the sale is considered to happen at Domino's in town.  Why should that be different when the delivery crosses any other political boundary?

[230RN]

^ What the heck are you trying to do, make sense?

KD5NRH for Supreme Court Justice !

Terry

[bedlamite]

KD5NRH for Supreme Court Justice !

That could be entertaining.

[makattak]

What they need to do is push hard to get a ruling that the tax that applies is the seller's; it makes more sense that way anyway.  If I go to mom's house out out of town and order a pizza, I still have to pay 8.25% tax (6.25 state and 2.0 city) instead of 6.25%, so it certainly appears the sale is considered to happen at Domino's in town.  Why should that be different when the delivery crosses any other political boundary?

I think this is how it ought to be applied.

I have no problem making all my purchases from Delaware, New Hampshire, Montana, and Oregon.

[dogmush]

What they need to do is push hard to get a ruling that the tax that applies is the seller's; it makes more sense that way anyway.  If I go to mom's house out out of town and order a pizza, I still have to pay 8.25% tax (6.25 state and 2.0 city) instead of 6.25%, so it certainly appears the sale is considered to happen at Domino's in town.  Why should that be different when the delivery crosses any other political boundary?

I think this is how it ought to be applied.

I have no problem making all my purchases from Delaware, New Hampshire, Montana, and Oregon.

And suddenly there's a run on PO boxes and licenses in low tax states, and CA heads back to court.

[MechAg94]

I think this is how it ought to be applied.

I have no problem making all my purchases from Delaware, New Hampshire, Montana, and Oregon.

That would be an interesting disincentive to high taxes similar to people moving to low income tax states.

[just Warren]

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2018/06/the-sales-tax-problem-for-small-businesses.html