Requiring sellers to collect, report, and forward sales/excise/use taxes on internet purchases is almost certain to pass.
Which will kill of a lot of small businesses, like the one that sells only variously-themed antenna toppers - http://www.coolballs.com/
The paperwork will be horrendous. Software to handle it is [probably] available but doubtless costs thousands of dollars per year. I used to work for a store with branches in six States: not only did we have to update computer/register software at least weekly, we had to pay several lobbyist-type firms to notify us of the changes in taxes, down to the village-of-four-hundred-people level.
The generally-proposed "solution" to that is to get everyplace with such taxes to use a common rate, or some such pie-in-the-sky-bye-and-bye codswollop.
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Requiring sellers to collect, report, and forward sales/excise/use taxes on internet purchases is almost certain to pass.
Which will kill of a lot of small businesses, like the one that sells only variously-themed antenna toppers - http://www.coolballs.com/
The paperwork will be horrendous. Software to handle it is [probably] available but doubtless costs thousands of dollars per year. I used to work for a store with branches in six States: not only did we have to update computer/register software at least weekly, we had to pay several lobbyist-type firms to notify us of the changes in taxes, down to the village-of-four-hundred-people level.
The generally-proposed "solution" to that is to get everyplace with such taxes to use a common rate, or some such pie-in-the-sky-bye-and-bye codswollop.
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