NY State To Enforce Sales Tax on the Net?

[sdelmonte]

As part of an effort to raise revenue, New York State has given Internet retailers five weeks to start collecting sales tax.

I'm of two minds about this. I think that if there is a sales tax, is should be applied to all sales. And certainly brick and mortar merchants are right in feeling that they can't really compete. But sales taxes are regressive, and the growth of "e-tail sales" has occurred in part due to the lack of sales tax being charged on many (though not all) sites.

I wonder if this will actually come to pass, or if, after a decade of being able to shop online, many of use are so used to to it that we won't mind the tax.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I think in Massachusetts there's some law that requires us to declare how much money we spent on Internet retailers, and then to pay a percentage of that as sales tax on our state tax return.