Taxing of Internet Purchases

innerSpaceman · 06-30-2011, 04:00 PM

Yes, and it's messed up either way. I hate for Amazon and other on-liner's to have an unfair competitive advantage over brick&mortars. But at the same time, tens of thousands of jobs were just lost in California when Amazon cut loose all its CA affiliates to avoid the new sales tax (not to mention all the sales tax revenue to be lost when most of those affiliates move to others states in order to get back together with Amazon).

Of course, this is arguably a new tax, which must be approved by 2/3 of the legislature - meaning this dispute will be tied up in court for years.

This is a total cluserfvck.

06-30-2011, 04:00 PM	#2
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Yes, and it's messed up either way. I hate for Amazon and other on-liner's to have an unfair competitive advantage over brick&mortars. But at the same time, tens of thousands of jobs were just lost in California when Amazon cut loose all its CA affiliates to avoid the new sales tax (not to mention all the sales tax revenue to be lost when most of those affiliates move to others states in order to get back together with Amazon). Of course, this is arguably a new tax, which must be approved by 2/3 of the legislature - meaning this dispute will be tied up in court for years. This is a total cluserfvck.
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