States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules

Re:States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court... by DoctorOetker on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:44PM (#17367474)

With fee, do you mean that you have to pay a yearly fee for simply registering as possibly collecting taxes for that jurisdiction? Not sure what most is, but ~30-50 pay-to-play fee's a year will certainly hurt the small businesses.

I think it's good to start harmonizing the sales taxes, but such a fee (if I understand you correctly) should be removed...

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Re:States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court... by kels on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:56PM (#17367622)

I'm in Colorado and I had to pay $66 up front. $50 is a deposit and $16 is the fee every two years. I see that California doesn't have a fee but I know other states do.

TaxJar will register for you in the States that you need for ~$100 per state, plus their fees (https://www.taxjar.com/state-registrations/) -- I'm sure Avalara does something similar but that's ~$5000 that a small business probably won't have.

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Re:States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court... by cmurf on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:18PM (#17370018)

Colorado has home rule cities with their own tax license, rules, submission. Even due dates van be different per municipality.

It's a system designed ages ago, not only pre-internet, but even pre-car.

For internet businesses it's really unworkable to require they submit anything other than state sales tax but even that is onerous due to registration fees and old and nonstandardized submission systems.

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Re:States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court... by DoctorOetker on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:04PM (#17367709)

what do you think about this idea ? :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669

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