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Brick and mortar don't get to do that either, so why should online ones?
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Brick and mortar don't get to do that either, so why should online ones?
- ncallaway 8y agoWhen I launch a single brick and mortar store, I have to worry about the tax jurisdiction that store is in. When I launch a single small web app, I have to worry about everything single tax jurisdiction in the country. I'm super not opposed to taxes, but I do think this is an area that the federal government should step in. If only to provide a standardized system for different jurisdictions to report their sales tax laws. It seems like a very very clear use of the commerce clause and regulation of interstate commerce.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoCongress has had decades to step in. They declined to, largely due to an anti-tax sentiment among a large block of them. Absent a resolution from Congress, and no indication that they'd do anything, the courts had to work with what they were given.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoWe should differentiate between 1) standardizing the tax calculation algorithm, and 2) standardizing the taxation rates As long as the two are conflated nothing will change. Irrespective of political/personal/ideological position on nr.2) I think most of us can agree on nr.1)... (except for the bigger chains, and the FUD navigation services.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoThat analogy is not perfect, if you restrict your web app to only serve people within the same single tax jurisdiction as the brick and mortar store, then there is no need to worry about every single tax jurisdiction. But I fully agree with you regarding the need for the federal government standardizing. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669