{"id":7124,"date":"2010-09-17T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2010-09-17T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T23:53:41","slug":"online-sales-tax-already-on-the-books-in-most-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7124\/online-sales-tax-already-on-the-books-in-most-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Sales Tax Already on the Books in Most States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting reading from MSNBC.com explains that 46 states, plus the District of Columbia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39159604\/ns\/business-personal_finance\/ \" target=\"_blank\">already have internet sales taxes on the books<\/a>.\u00a0 However, most businesses with an online presence either don\u2019t know or don\u2019t pay.\u00a0 In many circumstances the sales tax (as it\u2019s called when the seller collects and reports the tax) is turned into a use tax (i.e. shifting collection and reporting to the buyer.)<\/p>\n<p>The State of Alabama is apparently sending out notices for residents to pay up \u2013 for purchases over <em>the last three years<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of states considering more direct legislation in order to recoup the estimated $8.6 billion in lost \u201crevenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u2018Amazon laws\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>States that are currently considering requiring out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on online transactions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 California<br \/>\n\u2022 Connecticut<br \/>\n\u2022 Illinois<br \/>\n\u2022 Iowa<br \/>\n\u2022 Maryland<br \/>\n\u2022 Minnesota<br \/>\n\u2022 New Mexico<br \/>\n\u2022 South Carolina<br \/>\n\u2022 Tennessee<br \/>\n\u2022 Vermont<br \/>\n\u2022 Virginia<br \/>\n\u2022 Wisconsin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting reading from MSNBC.com explains that 46 states, plus the District of Columbia, already have internet sales taxes on the books.\u00a0 However, most businesses with an online presence either don\u2019t know or don\u2019t pay.\u00a0 In many circumstances the sales tax (as it\u2019s called when the seller collects and reports the tax) is turned into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,59,308,1858,105],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-internet","tag-revolution","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}