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This article is utter horse shit and I hope nobody believes it. If you start a business in Texas you only pay sales taxes to customers in Texas. The same appli

This article is utter horse shit and I hope nobody believes it. If you start a business in Texas you only pay sales taxes to customers in Texas. The same applies for any of the other 49 states of the union. Interstate taxes like described in this article are unconstitutional and have been held up in court: http://taxfoundation.org/article/amazon-tax-unconstitutional-and-unwise http://taxfoundation.org/article/amazon-tax-unconstitutional... Edit: This piece of trash article was written by a sack of shit with a stake in getting start-ups to spend money trying to be tax complaint. [1][2] Pandodaily would be wise to remove this article and revoke the authors posting privileges. [1]http://pando.com/authors/jonathan-barsade/ http://pando.com/authors/jonathan-barsade/ [2]http://www.exactor.com/ http://www.exactor.com/

gamblor956 13y ago
This article is utter horse shit and I hope nobody believes it. This article is not utter HS. It's an important warning to startups not to ignore one of the most basic principles of law in the US legal system (local regulation and taxation). By the way, the Tax Foundation article is 4.5 years old. The legal landscape has changed significantly since then. Most importantly, Amazon settled these cases after it became clear that the weight of jurisprudence was tilting toward overturning Quill (the catalog-sales case which created the substantial nexus doctrine for state sales taxes). Primarily, the major factors in the Quill decision--the impossibility of tracking the multitude of state and local taxes and the miniscule size of the catalog market--are no longer relevant today. Computer software and services make tracking state and local taxes effectively painless, and internet retailers like Amazon routinely outsell their brick & mortar counterparts. This piece of trash article was written by a sack of shit with a stake in getting start-ups to spend money trying to be tax complaint. [1][2] Pandodaily would be wise to remove this article and revoke the authors posting privileges. Watch your mouth. This is not reddit. And in the US, we have a federal system by design. Originally, all taxes were levied at the state and local levels--as these jurisdictions are the most affected by businesses operating withing their jurisdictions and thus have the right to regulate and tax such activity. If you start a business in Texas you only pay sales taxes to customers in Texas. Get your facts straight. No business pays sales taxes to customers. Customers owe sales taxes, which the business collects from the customer and remits on their behalf.
rdtsc 13y ago
Will the state of Texas cover your legal fees if another state, say Nevada, is taking your to court or is asking for sales back-tax + penalty + interest?

gamblor956 13y ago

This article is utter horse shit and I hope nobody believes it. This article is not utter HS. It's an important warning to startups not to ignore one of the most basic principles of law in the US legal system (local regulation and taxation). By the way, the Tax Foundation article is 4.5 years old. The legal landscape has changed significantly since then. Most importantly, Amazon settled these cases after it became clear that the weight of jurisprudence was tilting toward overturning Quill (the catalog-sales case which created the substantial nexus doctrine for state sales taxes). Primarily, the major factors in the Quill decision--the impossibility of tracking the multitude of state and local taxes and the miniscule size of the catalog market--are no longer relevant today. Computer software and services make tracking state and local taxes effectively painless, and internet retailers like Amazon routinely outsell their brick & mortar counterparts. This piece of trash article was written by a sack of shit with a stake in getting start-ups to spend money trying to be tax complaint. [1][2] Pandodaily would be wise to remove this article and revoke the authors posting privileges. Watch your mouth. This is not reddit. And in the US, we have a federal system by design. Originally, all taxes were levied at the state and local levels--as these jurisdictions are the most affected by businesses operating withing their jurisdictions and thus have the right to regulate and tax such activity. If you start a business in Texas you only pay sales taxes to customers in Texas. Get your facts straight. No business pays sales taxes to customers. Customers owe sales taxes, which the business collects from the customer and remits on their behalf.

rdtsc 13y ago

Will the state of Texas cover your legal fees if another state, say Nevada, is taking your to court or is asking for sales back-tax + penalty + interest?