Boehner kills internet sales tax bill

[Lief 🗽]

http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/boehner-kills-internet-sales-tax-bill/

Looks like the Republican war on small businesses and the states continues unabated!

[MurrayBannerman]

This is fantastic news.

[CountryClassSF]

Good. How many more taxes does the admin want? Sheesh

[Paul Kemp]

Need to bump this to get a screenshot of the cut-off title. Brilliant work, Lief.

[KCDem]

Glorious news! For once orange man isn't useless.

[New_Conservative]

This is fantastic news.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

This is fantastic news.

[AggregateDemand]

Lower taxes are always preferable to higher taxes, but tax loopholes distort the market in counterproductive ways. E-commerce has been exempt from taxation because no one can decide how to tax such complicated transactions, but rules need to be established for the good of businesses and consumers.

Personally, I think all of the sales tax revenue should go to the buyer's state (billing address). Buyer residence is much easier to trace, and the seller state and processor state are already collecting industrial property taxes and income taxes from the workers (in many instances).

[RR1997]

This is fantastic news.

[King]

While I guess it would be more fair for businesses, I am against sales taxes in general. FF decision.

[Lief 🗽]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Lower taxes are always preferable to higher taxes

That's some serious analysis there dude.

[Maxwell]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

What is the argument for this idea?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I oppose all sales taxes from the left, as they tend to hit lower and middle-income people at a proportionately higher rate.

[MurrayBannerman]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

The added burden of shipping costs.

[Lief 🗽]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

What is the argument for this idea?

1) Unfair competition: online retailers like Amazon get to sell products at a 5-10% discount compared to local small businesses.

2) States are losing out on a considerable amount of sales tax revenue.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

What is the argument for this idea?

1) Unfair competition: online retailers like Amazon get to sell products at a 5-10% discount compared to local small businesses.

2) States are losing out on a considerable amount of sales tax revenue.

So? And so?

[Mehmentum]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

What is the argument for this idea?

1) Unfair competition: online retailers like Amazon get to sell products at a 5-10% discount compared to local small businesses.

2) States are losing out on a considerable amount of sales tax revenue.

So? And so?

Taxing physical sales but not internet sales amounts to the government promoting online retailers like amazon over small business.  If that's what you want, go ahead...

[Goldwater]

This is fantastic news.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I oppose all sales taxes from the left, as they tend to hit lower and middle-income people at a proportionately higher rate.

I have mixed views.  I dont like paying sales tax and having the tax free option is a good trade off for having to wait for shipping.  That said... Fairness would dictate that products should be taxed evenly according to the state from which you are making the purchase.

[Bigby]

Good, there shouldn't be a national sales tax while there is a national income tax. Pick one or the other.

[New_Conservative]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

Good, there shouldn't be a national sales tax while there is a national income tax. Pick one or the other.

[Lief 🗽]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

Good, there shouldn't be a national sales tax while there is a national income tax. Pick one or the other.

This isn't a national sales tax. It would essentially just make online retailers pay the full state sales tax.

[Bigby]

This is fantastic news.

Do you guys have an argument why this is a good idea besides "muh taxes"?

Good, there shouldn't be a national sales tax while there is a national income tax. Pick one or the other.

This isn't a national sales tax. It would essentially just make online retailers pay the full state sales tax.

Internet retailers already pay state sales tax if the transaction is within the state anyway. For example, if you live in Washington State and buy a game on Steam, since Steam is in WA, you get charged sales tax.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

If you order from a catalog, sales tax is generally not collected either.  It's not unique to the internet.

I'd be all for online/catalog orders having to pay sales tax to the buyer's residence if it wasn't for the complexity and extra cost of every seller constantly having to account for >100 different domestic tax regimes.