Supreme Court Rules On-line Sales Tax May Be Collected By Individual States

340demon72 said

There are thousands of small mom and pop sellers with an Internet presence. Now they are saddled with a nightmarish task of determining the correct sales tax for any state they sell to, collecting that tax, then remitting it to the individual states. You can't believe this isn't going to be a costly affair for them. I can picture many sellers giving up due to the headache and expense.

Fair or not I won't debate, but it's going to cause a lot of pain. Have not studied it enough to know if used items will be exempt and will private sellers get caught up in it (thinking eBay)?

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Good! That's part of owning a business. I'm responsible for collecting and paying sales tax in all the states I do business in. As a real business owner you are issued a sales tax certificate that makes you legally authorized to collect sales tax.

Don't fool yourself into believing the mom and pop website business crap. Most of the websites with incredibly cheap pricing are run by the execs at manufacturers. When Joe the plumber buys a toilet through his wholesale distributor for $200, and you can buy it on Crappers.com for $150... that's not a mom and pop website looking out for you. It's an exec drop shipping the toilet right out of the warehouse to your doorstep. They have just screwed their wholesalers, retailers, installers, and the state out of sales tax. I wish people would wake up and realize that e-commerce has done more destruction to middle class America than anything else. Saving $5 bucks and eliminating 5 jobs may sound fine to some people... until they are one of the 5 in the next round affected.