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Old May 24th 07, 05:56 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
Jim Higgins
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Net taxes could arrive by this fall
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6...ml?tag=nl.e622

The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections
could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove
successful.

State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress
for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to
impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly
taxes on DSL and other connections. One senator is even predicting taxes
on e-mail.

At the moment, states and municipalities are frequently barred by
federal law from collecting both access and sales taxes. But they're
hoping that their new lobbying effort, coordinated by groups including
the National Governors Association, will pay off by permitting them to
collect billions of dollars in new revenue by next year.

If that doesn't happen, other taxes may zoom upward instead, warned Sen.
Michael Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
"Are we implicitly blessing a situation where states are forced to raise
other taxes, such as income or property taxes, to offset the growing
loss of sales tax revenue?" Enzi said. "I want to avoid that."

A flurry of proposals that pro-tax advocates advanced this week push in
that direction. On Tuesday, Enzi introduced a bill that would usher in
mandatory sales tax collection for Internet purchases. Second, during a
House of Representatives hearing the same day, politicians weighed
whether to let a temporary ban on Net access taxes lapse when it expires
on November 1. A House backer of another pro-sales tax bill said this
week to expect a final version by July.

"The independent and sovereign authority of states to develop their own
revenue systems is a basic tenet of self government and our federal
system," said David Quam, director of federal relations at the National
Governors Association, during a Senate Commerce committee hearing on
Wednesday.

Internet sales taxes
At the moment, for instance, Seattle-based Amazon.com is not required to
collect sales taxes on shipments to millions of its customers in states
like California, where Amazon has no offices. (Californians are supposed
to voluntarily pay the tax owed when filing annual state tax returns,
but few do.)

Ideas to alter this situation hardly represent a new debate: officials
from the governors' association have been pressing Congress to enact
such a law for at least six years. They invoke arguments--unsuccessful
so far--like saying that reduced sales tax revenue threatens budgets for
schools and police.

But with Democrats now in control of both chambers of Congress, the
political dynamic appears to have shifted in favor of the pro-tax
advocates and their allies on Capitol Hill. The NetChoice coalition,
which counts as members eBay, Yahoo and the Electronic Retailing
Association and opposes the sales tax plan, fears that the partisan
shift will spell trouble.

One long-standing objection to mandatory sales tax collection, which the
Supreme Court in a 1992 case left up to Congress to decide, is the
complexity of more than 7,500 different tax agencies that each have
their own (and frequently bizarre) rules. Some legal definitions (PDF)
tax Milky Way Midnight candy bars as candy and treat the original Milky
Way bar as food. Peanut butter Girl Scout cookies are candy, but Thin
Mints or Caramel deLites are classified as food.

The pro-tax forces say that a concept called the Streamlined Sales Tax
Agreement will straighten out some of the notorious convolutions of
state tax laws. Enzi's bill, introduced this week, relies on the
agreement when providing "federal authorization" to require out-of-state
retailers "to collect and remit the sales and use taxes" due on the
purchase. (Small businesses with less than $5 million in out-of-state
sales are exempted.)

It's "important to level the playing field for all retailers," Enzi said
during Wednesday's hearing.
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Old May 24th 07, 09:08 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
kathy1945
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I don't understand what their big concern is. Mail order has been
around forever, and it works the same, as best I understand, as e-
purchases. If there is a physical presence in a state, the state(s)
gets its sales tax.

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Old May 24th 07, 10:56 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
Jim Higgins
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kathy1945 wrote:
I don't understand what their big concern is. Mail order has been
around forever, and it works the same, as best I understand, as e-
purchases. If there is a physical presence in a state, the state(s)
gets its sales tax.


The Tax Person wants to collect whether there is a physical presence or
not. In the last 2000 years only two (2) tax collectors went
straight-Matthew and Zacchaeus.
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Old May 24th 07, 11:49 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
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"Jim Higgins" wrote in message
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Net taxes could arrive by this fall
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This is a bunch of HORSE ****!


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Old May 25th 07, 12:22 AM posted to rec.collecting.coins
Jim Higgins
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PC wrote:
"Jim Higgins" wrote in message
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Net taxes could arrive by this fall
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6...ml?tag=nl.e622


This is a bunch of HORSE ****!



I hope so but never underestimate the greed of a tax collector.
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Old May 25th 07, 12:32 AM posted to rec.collecting.coins
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"Jim Higgins" wrote in message
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PC wrote:
"Jim Higgins" wrote in message
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Net taxes could arrive by this fall
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6...ml?tag=nl.e622


This is a bunch of HORSE ****!


I hope so but never underestimate the greed of a tax collector.


The tax collector is just doing his job (you DO want gummint employees to
earn their salaries, no?). It's the politicians that we have to thank for
making the job what it is. Not only that, but the biggest line item in any
gummint budget is for graft and corruption. If we could get rid of that,
all legitimate gummint lines would suddenly be awash in funds.

James


 




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