The store should have to give the
tax to the state of residence of the purchaser. Or no tax should
be collected.
David
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Beware
the Internet Sales Tax
The Internet sales tax is back, and it
could be the next big vote in the Senate.
The proposed law would enable states to
force
businesses to collect sales tax from
customers who live in their state—even
when the businesses have no connection to
that state.
As Heritage President Jim DeMint has said,
this violates the classic American
principle of “no
taxation without representation.”
Retailers would be forced to
act as tax collectors for states in which
they have no voice.
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Under current law, retailers are required
to collect sales taxes only in states
where they have a physical presence. But
Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid (D-NV) is pushing for a vote on
a new Internet sales tax that would hit
all online businesses—no matter where
they’re
located.
DeMint says:
Consider the absurdity of such
a law. When a customer buys a product in
a store, does the cashier
ask for the customer's home address? Of
course not. The store simply charges the
state and local sales taxes applicable
for its physical location, no
questions asked.
“Brick-and-mortar” stores like Wal-Mart
are in favor of the Internet sales tax,
because they see these
online retailers as competitors. But the
other big proponents of the tax are state
governments, which would be able to reach
into other states for
revenue.
States are struggling with their own
budgets—but they should have to make the
hard decisions to manage their budgets,
rather than trying to collect taxes from
citizens of other states to help cover
their expenses. As DeMint said:
Politicians want this bill
passed to raise
new tax revenue for broken state
governments facing budget shortfalls.
But legislators in state capitals don't
want to make the hard decisions to cut
spending or raise taxes on their
constituents—they fear the voter
backlash. So they'd like their allies in
Washington to make it legal for them
to tax people who can't vote against
them.
This taxation without representation might
boost some state tax collections, but it
wouldn’t help the economy. Heritage legal
expert David Addington has written that
“hobbling out-of-state businesses that
sell through the
Internet or mail order catalogs does
not help the national
economy.”
Instead, the Internet sales tax would “increase
the amount of tax dollars millions of
Americans pay,
encourage states to increase the size and
scope of their governments, favor some
states over others in granting federal
authority, and discourage
free-market competition in interstate
commerce,” Addington wrote.
It’s simply another bad idea coming out of
Washington at a
time when consumers and businesses are
struggling to get by.
Read the Morning Bell
and more en español every
day at Heritage
Libertad.
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