[Coco] (OFF TOPIC) Sales Tax From NewEgg...

[Rod Barnhart]

Allen,

I'm a former Amazonian, so I may have a little insight into their
situation. They fought vigorously to avoid being required to collect sales
tax in states where they had no physical presence, to the point that you
could not check your email remotely if you went home to a state they didn't
already have a presence. Their fear was that an overzealous politician
would claim that as remote work, and remote work was a presence in that
state, and thus they'd be required to collect sales tax there. Of course,
they gave up that fight when they decided they wanted a presence in every
state, thus would be required to collect sales tax in any state that had it.

Rod


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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Dec 28, 2017, at 9:25 AM, Joe Schutts via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone else receive a similar notice? I find it strange that all of
> a sudden NewEgg has started charging Sales Taxes in the state of
> Pennsylvania for ANY sales made over the Internet.
>
> Amazon started doing this a year or so ago, too. Originally, I think it
> was just for states where Amazon had a presence - like a warehouse or
> whatever.
>
> I haven’t been paying much attention, but it seems to be the way things
> are going. Clearly, we all want more taxes so we vote in the
> representatives that will give this to us ;-)
>
> When I ran Sub-Etha Software back in Texas, we only charged tax for orders
> from within Texas. Today, I’m not sure how small businesses are supposed to
> handle this. I have a business here in Iowa, but I haven’t been active with
> it the past few years when this started happening.
>
>                 — A
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