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I'm all for personal privacy and a healthy cash economy, but this won't expand the powers of law enforcement (who can already subpoena your credit card records
by rcoder 18y ago
I'm all for personal privacy and a healthy cash economy, but this won't expand the powers of law enforcement (who can already subpoena your credit card records more or less at will) or change the tax code. All it will do is give the IRS some chance at tracking down the most flagrant violators amongst online businesses.
If you are running a small business, fail to keep accurate track of your income and expenses, and are under-taxed because of it, you are committing tax fraud.
- gills 18y agoI agree. Why should electronic transactions be taxed any differently than traditional transactions? "Because the internet is special?" Give me a break.
- newt0311 18y agoNo, because normal transactions shouldn't be taxed either. At least not as heavily as they are now. Electronic transactions happen to be one of the few parts of the system that actually work.
- gills 18y agoWhile I agree with you, evading taxation is not exactly the way to change the system. I feel like I've been harping on this lately...but VOTE to fix the tax system, don't break the law. Every time someone avoids paying a tax, big brother goes out and takes it out of someone else ("you"?) or borrows it (costing more from "you" in the long run). Still going to defend tax evasion?
- newt0311 18y agoumm. Not charging state sales tax for online websites is usually legal as they are across state lines and states have no power to tax beyond their borders. This has already been well documented in several supreme court decisions. So no, I ado not advocate tax evasion. I do advocate not having a sales tax which online sales accomplish legally because they are across state borders.