Sign The Petition Against A UN Imposed Tax On The Internet!
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Please sign this petition against a United Nations imposed tax on the Internet. Speak up against UN regulation of the Internet and against giving countries the right to censor the Internet. Help stop giving the UN the power to assign e-addresses and obligate them to report these e-addresses and IP addresses to host countries (so China can track down dissidents)!
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"We The People" are supposed to support this because of the GREAT job Congress has done with the tax revenue it currently collects. It's just another way for our government to impose more taxes and do nothing with them for themselves. WE WILL NEVER SEE A DIME OF IT!!!!!
i thing these people forgot who hired them we the people it's simple all of you people are fired it's that simple
this is a assult on small business
Currently less than 3/4 of .1% of use tax is paid. So the collection and submission of use tax to states for which the tax should paid is a presently a huge issue that extends way beyond online sales. In fact, online Internet sales contribute to only a small portion of this unpaid use tax. Most of un-remitted sales tax occurs in both small and big brick and mortar retail stores in which customers from other states don't report back and pay the use tax to their own home state. Most of these buyers never realize that they are committing tax evasion. Nor do the buyers of online merchandise.
Making Internet sellers pay the buyer's tax by reporting to over 13,000 sales tax districts in the US puts a tremendous burden on small online sellers who often work a 100+ hour week and only corrects a small amount of UN-remitted use tax. Although the online seller would be responsible for checking monthly use tax collections against manuals provided to them, the taxpayer would foot the software collection expenses, something that's seldom, if at all mentioned. And software currently exists for only around 25 out of 287 web store platforms.
The software would automatically pull out the use tax from the seller’s bank account.
With 1500 more tax districts expected to be added next year to the over 13,000 that already exists, and with tax districts continuously changing figures and qualifications (in NY, for example, some districts require clothing be taxed while in other districts don’t), the current solution lays the grounds for audit nightmares among small businesses. Those audits would be conducted in any of the sales districts to which the tax would be remitted. Think about the realities that this would hold for small online businesses!
We do need a state tax solution, but it needs to be simple. Maybe online businesses could pay the tax to their own home states. This is exactly what's happening with the almost all of the unpaid use tax accrued in retail brick & mortar business. If the collection of use tax is being overlooked for purchases that occur within brick and mortar retail stores of all sizes and if retail stores still won't be expected to become tax collectors and remit the money to the buyer's sales tax district across the country, why require it of online businesses? That's unfair.
Why not defer to the same implicit allowance that's being made for brick & mortar retail businesses? Allow online businesses to remit to their own sales tax district within the state in which they reside. That way too the seller can benefit from the sales tax, just as the case with the brick and mortar business. And the online seller can stay focused on growing the business rather than being substantially burdened with the extra work and cost of becoming a tax collector and distributor for other states across the union. This would be a fair solution given other current use tax practices (rather, I should say, given the lack of reinforcem
Making Internet sellers pay the buyer's tax by reporting to over 13,000 sales tax districts in the US puts a tremendous burden on small online sellers who often work a 100+ hour week and only corrects a small amount of UN-remitted use tax. Although the online seller would be responsible for checking monthly use tax collections against manuals provided to them, the taxpayer would foot the software collection expenses, something that's seldom, if at all mentioned. And software currently exists for only around 25 out of 287 web store platforms.
The software would automatically pull out the use tax from the seller’s bank account.
With 1500 more tax districts expected to be added next year to the over 13,000 that already exists, and with tax districts continuously changing figures and qualifications (in NY, for example, some districts require clothing be taxed while in other districts don’t), the current solution lays the grounds for audit nightmares among small businesses. Those audits would be conducted in any of the sales districts to which the tax would be remitted. Think about the realities that this would hold for small online businesses!
We do need a state tax solution, but it needs to be simple. Maybe online businesses could pay the tax to their own home states. This is exactly what's happening with the almost all of the unpaid use tax accrued in retail brick & mortar business. If the collection of use tax is being overlooked for purchases that occur within brick and mortar retail stores of all sizes and if retail stores still won't be expected to become tax collectors and remit the money to the buyer's sales tax district across the country, why require it of online businesses? That's unfair.
Why not defer to the same implicit allowance that's being made for brick & mortar retail businesses? Allow online businesses to remit to their own sales tax district within the state in which they reside. That way too the seller can benefit from the sales tax, just as the case with the brick and mortar business. And the online seller can stay focused on growing the business rather than being substantially burdened with the extra work and cost of becoming a tax collector and distributor for other states across the union. This would be a fair solution given other current use tax practices (rather, I should say, given the lack of reinforcem
The Marketplace Fairness Act is before the senate today, and it's expected to pass.
The act has largely flown below the public's radar, and there's much misinformation circulating.
Here's information to help you understand the impact that this act will have on small online businesses. Because we all need to work together to make sure this law doesn't pass the House of Representatives!
Here's a petition to oppose this act that was just written! http://www.causes.com/actions/1750204-oppose
eBay also has a petition! Sign both! http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/campaigns/tell-congress-oppose-internet-sales-tax-legislation
Here is moire information to help you understand why you should sign this petition!
Currently less than 3/4 of .1% of use tax is paid. So the collection and submission of use tax to states for which the tax should paid is a presently a huge issue that extends way beyond online sales. In fact, online Internet sales contribute to only a small portion of this unpaid use tax. Most of un-remitted sales tax occurs in both small and big brick and mortar retail stores in which customers from other states don't report back and pay the use tax to their own home state. Most of these buyers never realize that they are committing tax evasion. Nor do the buyers of online merchandise.
Making Internet sellers pay the buyer's tax by reporting to over 13,000 sales tax districts in the US puts a tremendous burden on small online sellers who often work a 100+ hour week and only corrects a small amount of UN-remitted use tax. Although the online seller would be responsible for checking monthly use tax collections against manuals provided to them, the taxpayer would foot the software collection expenses, something that's seldom, if at all mentioned. And software currently exists for only around 25 out of 287 web store platforms.
The software would automatically pull out the use tax from the seller’s bank account.
With 1500 more tax districts expected to be added next year to the over 13,000 that already exists, and with tax districts continuously changing figures and qualifications (in NY, for example, some districts require clothing be taxed while in other districts don’t), the current solution lays the grounds for audit nightmares among small businesses. Those audits would be conducted in any of the sales districts to which the tax would be remitted. Think about the realities that this would hold for small online businesses!
We do need a state tax solution, but it needs to be simple. Maybe online businesses could pay the tax to their own home states. This is exactly what's happening with the almost all of the unpaid use tax accrued in retail brick & mortar business. If the collection of use tax is being overlooked for purchases that occur within brick and mortar retail stores of all sizes and if retail stores still won't be expected to become tax collectors and remit the money to the buyer's sales tax distric
The act has largely flown below the public's radar, and there's much misinformation circulating.
Here's information to help you understand the impact that this act will have on small online businesses. Because we all need to work together to make sure this law doesn't pass the House of Representatives!
Here's a petition to oppose this act that was just written! http://www.causes.com/actions/1750204-oppose
eBay also has a petition! Sign both! http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/campaigns/tell-congress-oppose-internet-sales-tax-legislation
Here is moire information to help you understand why you should sign this petition!
Currently less than 3/4 of .1% of use tax is paid. So the collection and submission of use tax to states for which the tax should paid is a presently a huge issue that extends way beyond online sales. In fact, online Internet sales contribute to only a small portion of this unpaid use tax. Most of un-remitted sales tax occurs in both small and big brick and mortar retail stores in which customers from other states don't report back and pay the use tax to their own home state. Most of these buyers never realize that they are committing tax evasion. Nor do the buyers of online merchandise.
Making Internet sellers pay the buyer's tax by reporting to over 13,000 sales tax districts in the US puts a tremendous burden on small online sellers who often work a 100+ hour week and only corrects a small amount of UN-remitted use tax. Although the online seller would be responsible for checking monthly use tax collections against manuals provided to them, the taxpayer would foot the software collection expenses, something that's seldom, if at all mentioned. And software currently exists for only around 25 out of 287 web store platforms.
The software would automatically pull out the use tax from the seller’s bank account.
With 1500 more tax districts expected to be added next year to the over 13,000 that already exists, and with tax districts continuously changing figures and qualifications (in NY, for example, some districts require clothing be taxed while in other districts don’t), the current solution lays the grounds for audit nightmares among small businesses. Those audits would be conducted in any of the sales districts to which the tax would be remitted. Think about the realities that this would hold for small online businesses!
We do need a state tax solution, but it needs to be simple. Maybe online businesses could pay the tax to their own home states. This is exactly what's happening with the almost all of the unpaid use tax accrued in retail brick & mortar business. If the collection of use tax is being overlooked for purchases that occur within brick and mortar retail stores of all sizes and if retail stores still won't be expected to become tax collectors and remit the money to the buyer's sales tax distric
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