[time-nuts] S743 Marketplace Fariness Act

[DaveH]

And the funny thing is that there is already legislation in place to deal
with this.

If an online vendor has a corporate office, a warehouse or a brick and
mortar retail store in State XX (that has a sales tax), AND if an online
customer places an order to be shipped to an address in State XX, the sales
tax for State XX has to be charged.

I live in WA State and buy online from Amazon (corporate headquarters as
well as warehouse) and I get charged the WA State sales tax.  I buy online
from Fry's (just a brick and mortar store) and get charged sales tax. Parts
Express (great company) - no presence in WA State so no sales tax.

If I walked into Parts Express's corporate headquarters in Ohio and
purchased some stuff, I could show my WA State drivers license and be exempt
from the Ohio sales tax. Why is this any different from an online purchase?

Starve the beast -- it is doing nothing good for us.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 21:38
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] S743 Marketplace Fariness Act
> 
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Tom Knox <actast at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The eBay emails appear real since it can also be accessed 
> on my actual
> > eBay site. I cannot imagine what a pain it would be to sell 
> 20 items on
> > eBay each to a buyer in a different state and be required 
> to file the
> > paperwork to pay taxes on each of those sales. This is a formula for
> > disaster.
> 
> 
>  You as a selling would NOT have to worry Pay Pal could hand 
> the taxes for
> you.  Sellers would not have to do much.
> 
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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