On 05/12/2012 03:11 PM, John Coryat wrote:
If small developers have to actually be responsible for taxes then they
would need to raise their prices at least tenfold to cover the cost of a
firm to do that.
I think that may be an exaggeration. Dealing with sales tax, while a pain,
is not all that difficult. Millions of mom and pop stores around the
country easily do it now. I've written sales tax modules that cover the
entire US down to every possible wrinkle and the code is fairly trivial.
The way the existing sales tax system works is you only collect on sales in
your own state. If Congress ever decides to impose some sort of national
sales tax, then it would most likely be a simplified system that could be
implemented with relative ease.
Right now, there's nothing for those in the US to deal with so there's no
point in worrying about it.
-John Coryat
Imagine though if you had to deal with VAT taxes for other countries.
That would NOT be trivial. BTW, I already pointed out that I had to
charge taxes back in the 1980s for software because it was shipped on
discs back then and only for people in my state. And in Washington it
was one rate where you were. California makes people charge the rate
for the location you are shipping to. So California businesses have to
have the rate for every community which I think is crazy. Of course in
California there is no tax on downloaded software ..... yet.
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