NY State To Enforce Sales Tax on the Net?
Apr. 24th, 2008 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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Date: Apr. 24th, 2008 08:46 pm (UTC)