OT: Internet Sales Tax Passes the U.S. Senate

[James Finstrom]

I predict "call to order" then the sale is not an "internet sale".

Much like companies are cutting employee hours to avoid obamacare people
will find a way to avoid this.

James Finstrom



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On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:19 AM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:

> Great.. one more way to KILL small business by making them less
> competitive and increasing their overhead.  Companies will just adapt to
> this BS (and regular employees will pay for it).. getting close to
> 1M/year... time to SPLIT THE COMPANY.
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> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
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>> Keith:
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>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:48 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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>>>
>>> The U.S. Senate passed the Internet Sales Tax Bill.  Jeff Flake's office
>>> says he voted against it and John McCain's office said he voted FOR it.
>>>
>>> It is being reported there in some 9,600 taxing authorities in the U.S.
>>> Add to that 560 or so Indian tribe taxing authorities. That is over 10,000
>>> taxing authorities.  Yikes!!  Any company with 1 million in sales will be
>>> required to comply.  I can tell you that a company that has 1 million in
>>> sales is not a big company.  That online retailer might consist of 2 or 3
>>> employees with some additional help from a number of consultants and
>>> potentially a fulfillment center.
>>>
>>> From first hand experience, I would say this law, if passed by the U.S.
>>> House, will cause a bunch of small online retailers to either go out of
>>> business or reduce sales through raising prices or some other method.
>>>
>>> This may very well play out like ObamaCare where companies are reducing
>>> the hours of their employees so they have less than 50 full-time
>>> employees.   In other words we will experience the unintended consequences
>>> of these laws.
>>>
>>> These polices effect each of us.
>>>
>>
>> Yikes, yes!  And that will provide the revenue to expand Internet
>> government regulation and compliance.
>>
>> Sadly, it had to happen.
>>
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