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Is the long-term outcome looking like, one day, twenty years from now, we'll be collecting every last sales tax based on where the customer is right this very s
by mootothemax 12y ago
Is the long-term outcome looking like, one day, twenty years from now, we'll be collecting every last sales tax based on where the customer is right this very second?
It seems a bit unfair for the EU to demand e.g. US-based sites to collect VAT, and there not being anything going in the opposite direction.
- lmm 12y ago> Is the long-term outcome looking like, one day, twenty years from now, we'll be collecting every last sales tax based on where the customer is right this very second? Maybe. If our system is smooth enough to handle it then why not? Alternately one can hope we will finally abolish the nation-state and just collect tax in a unified international way. > It seems a bit unfair for the EU to demand e.g. US-based sites to collect VAT, and there not being anything going in the opposite direction. Plenty of US states have similar laws that you're supposed to collect sales tax for customers in that state even if you're a website selling from elsewhere.