New York Orders Large Web Retailers To Charge Tax

[katty]

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New York Orders Large Web Retailers To Charge Tax


Tony Aiello NEW YORK (CBS) ― New York Internet shoppers, take note: in five weeks, sales tax-free shopping will end on many Web sites thanks to rewritten state rules that are trying to force Internet retailers to collect.

At Chrono Tech Watches in White Plains, Jerry Nally is glad the clock is ticking on many Internet retailers that don't charge New York sales tax. Nally says those so-called "e-tailers" steal his customers.

"They'll come in our store, look at our product, touch it, play with it, look at the warranties, then go back to the web and buy it tax free," says Nally.

For years, retailers with "brick and mortar" stores in New York, such as Wal-Mart, have charged sales tax on orders placed through their Web sites. Yet Amazon.com and other e-tailers with no physical stores have not charged the tax, much to the delight of Internet bargain hunters, like online shopper April Cantin.

[hedgehog]

1. Good luck enforcing that.

How about collecting the cigarette taxes on the indian reservations while you're at it?

[pnorman]

2. The currrent rule seems to be, that if that seller has a physical presence in the buyer's state,

tax for that state is added to the bill. Living in Washington, that means that all my DIRECT sales from Amazon are taxable. I try to avoid that if possibler, but I don't really regard that as unjust. But what NY is proposing, IS absolute bullshit!

pnorman

[shraby]

3. I don't see how they can collect the taxes that

are owed to another state.

[silverweb]

4. It's only fair.

With so many states in dire financial need, it's only fair that internet sales should be taxed just the way other retail sales are.

It will probably take them a while to work the kinks out with regard to reporting, collection, and enforcement.

It really is necessary, though, to make up for some of the revenue losses states have been experiencing and I'd expect to see all 50 states doing the same thing before long.

[anselmo]

5. What if buy something on ebay?

Should I pay taxes as well, if I live in NY?