There’s many proposals for an internet sales tax on the table. States are missing desperately needed money from internet sales.
This effects me as I sell online and Yes I support it.
As usual not the way some of the bills are worded and would take effect but in general I would support an internet sales tax on all sales.
Problem is that the bills the politicians introduce and pretty much anything else they do lately makes life more difficult for the average businessman or Woman ,not easier. They just can’t seem to keep anything simple stupid anymore.
I’m small potatoes, really small in the business world. I don’t mind and would support an internet sales tax on my sales but I don’t want to be muddled in the black whole of a mess they call new policies and politics.
I don’t have the Time or Money or Manpower to collect, sort, send and pay taxes to a whole lot of different states at different rates. I’d just close up shop. Not worth it.
On the other hand if they could just for once pass some bill that makes sense and Keeps it Simple , Stupid I could do it. So could all the other internet businesses.
How about a simple one rate internet sales tax applied to all sales period. No sorting, no fussing. Just collect the set rate on every sale and just send a check in quarterly or end of year of whatever to one agency in the goverment branch that distributes it to all the states.
Now don’t get upset saying California buys more and illinois buys less. Or this state needs more and has more citizens and this one has less. Just divide it based on population or some other easy formula . Right now there’s nothing coming in to any state that grabs a share of ALL the internet sales taking place daily.
Isn’t a fixed internet sales tax on every internet sale regardless of who bought it from what state being collected and then distributed enough to balance the states short falls? Wouldn’t that go a long way to decreasing our deficit, Stabilizing our programs for the poor ,disabled and elderly?
Amazon would even support a reasonable internet tax at one rate thats easy to collect. At least that was what was mentioned in the past. Hopefully thats still the case.
Think about how much money would be brought in just by Amazons collected sales tax and ebay’s. WOW!
What amazon and me and all the other internet sellers big and tiny don’t want is the mess that our political leaders seem to churn out daily now.
Politicians get so lost in the paperwork , grand schemes and need to increase income they don’t realize that done in the wrong way thousands of small internet sellers will close up shop and walk away.
You may not think thats a big deal but think of all the small internet sellers who sell on ebay, amazon, small web sites. They buy their product from somewhere. Usually from brick and mortar stores in their states, in their towns, in their resale and salvation army shops.
Drive them out of business with convolated political policy and then local sales die further.
So yes lets have a general internet sales tax. One set rate. On all transactions. I can tally up my quarterly or yearly sales and send that percentage to ONE agency . They in turn can take all that billions and billions of dollars in new revenue and send it equally to the states based on population or whatever works. I just want to keep it simple stupid on my end . My life is complicated enough already.
So Write a decent bill. Stream line Internet tax. Set up an agency that won’t raid it or spend it rather then send it where its suppose to go. Divide up the states by population or however is equitable. Internet Sellers Will collect the one size fits all tax and send it on its way. You guys split it up and send it to the states where they take a deep sigh of relief and balance their budgets and stimulate business growth and support social programs.
Now if anyone with half a brain in politics could simply write that bill and agree on anything to get the job done.
