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I wasn't aware anyone actually declared their Amazon purchases at tax time.
by babl 15y ago
I wasn't aware anyone actually declared their Amazon purchases at tax time.
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- Anechoic 15y agoI do. Seriously.
- dangrossman 15y agoI do. Amazon purchases are usually all I end up reporting, too -- not many other sites I buy things from that aren't the sites of brick-and-mortar stores (which collect the sales tax). Especially if you are self-employed or own a business, the chances of NOT being audited eventually while never reporting any use taxes are not good.
- dprice1 15y agoI do as well. I sum up my online purchases from Amazon, add my wife's in, and pay the money. It goes to funding the things I use: Roads, firefighters, the library, the park next to my house. Heck, there was a fire two weeks ago in the apartment building next to where I live-- we sure as hell appreciated the firemen who came at 4:00am to prevent a catastrophe. The argument above about how it's impossible/expensive/complicated/etc. to collect sales tax seems exceedingly bogus to me especially given the nature of HN: Sounds like a business problem to be solved, not some byzantine task. Someone should go make an online sales-tax-computing web service and be done with it. Oh wait, someone did: http://salestaxwebservice.com/ http://salestaxwebservice.com/, http://www.avalara.com/products/avatax/calc http://www.avalara.com/products/avatax/calc, et cetera.