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>Oh boo hoo. First of all, your customers need infrastructure and if they choose to fund it from taxes that they pay that's their business. It's their business

by Arizhel 10y ago

>Oh boo hoo. First of all, your customers need infrastructure and if they choose to fund it from taxes that they pay that's their business. It's their business how they tax entities that are actually located within their borders. It's not their business to tax entities that are located outside those borders, even in other states, and merely ship into the locality. If the locality doesn't like that, they're free to ban shipping and the USPS, but I don't think the Federal government will take too kindly to that.

gumby 10y ago
> It's their business how they tax entities that are actually located within their borders. It's not their business to tax entities that are located outside those borders, even in other states, and merely ship into the locality. They are taxing entities located within their borders: the customers pay the tax, not the company. Sure, in theory you could require all the purchasers to keep track of all their purchases and remit the tax at tax time. Right. It's hardly unreasonable that the person handling the cash and who already has to keep track of all the transactions should aggregate and manage these taxes. I'm surprised that a CC provider hasn't offered to take care of all this for small providers.
- Arizhel 10y ago
  It's completely unreasonable to expect a small business located in one locality in one state to figure out the applicable sales taxes in 10,000 different tax jurisdictions across the nation, and then send out checks to every single different jurisdiction that his customers hail from. Placing this burden on the merchant absolutely DOES amount to a "tax" on the merchant. Time isn't free. And using the legal system against merchants who refuse or who make mistakes with taxes supposedly due to some little town that the merchant has never ever visited amounts to a violation of interstate commerce. If the locality can't get their citizens to remit their own taxes properly, that's their own problem and they need to more strongly enforce their laws on their own citizens.

by Arizhel 10y ago

gumby 10y ago

> It's their business how they tax entities that are actually located within their borders. It's not their business to tax entities that are located outside those borders, even in other states, and merely ship into the locality. They are taxing entities located within their borders: the customers pay the tax, not the company. Sure, in theory you could require all the purchasers to keep track of all their purchases and remit the tax at tax time. Right. It's hardly unreasonable that the person handling the cash and who already has to keep track of all the transactions should aggregate and manage these taxes. I'm surprised that a CC provider hasn't offered to take care of all this for small providers.

Arizhel 10y ago
It's completely unreasonable to expect a small business located in one locality in one state to figure out the applicable sales taxes in 10,000 different tax jurisdictions across the nation, and then send out checks to every single different jurisdiction that his customers hail from. Placing this burden on the merchant absolutely DOES amount to a "tax" on the merchant. Time isn't free. And using the legal system against merchants who refuse or who make mistakes with taxes supposedly due to some little town that the merchant has never ever visited amounts to a violation of interstate commerce. If the locality can't get their citizens to remit their own taxes properly, that's their own problem and they need to more strongly enforce their laws on their own citizens.