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<p>Amazon is wrong although I believe Overstock or now O.com has a better case.</p>
<p>I think Amazon is dead wrong on this, but I doubt that would matter if it weren’t for the fact that Amazon’s “no-tax” scam puts WalMart at a competitive disadvantage.</p>
<p>Big business vs. common good = no contest.</p>
<p>Big business vs. other big business= Where’s my popcorn? This could get good!</p>
<p>kluge- you are correct. I work in tax administration and we can not get legislators to sponsor any tax bills. Even bills that benefit taxpayers. We would like a penalty assessment that was passed rescinded by the legislators but no one will sponsor the bill. The penalty is onerous and it does not work in getting anyone to be compliant. All it does is make us send outrageous bills to taxpayers.</p>
<p>Makes no sense that owners of physical stores have to collect sales taxes and internet companies don’t.</p>
<p>The difference between mail order and local stores is usually MUCH higher than the sales tax. The same cellphone - Amazon Wireless - $19.95 vs AT&T and Best Buy at $99.95. Camera battery - $30 mail order, $50 at Best Buy. </p>
<p>Those who think that 6 or 7 percent would put either Amazon or Walmart at a competitive disadvantage may want to compare prices more carefully.</p>
<p>I live in a state that doesn’t have a sales tax and has low tobacco and alcohol taxes. We get hordes of shoppers from a nearby state that buy stuff because of the lower taxes and the lower prices.</p>
<p>I bought a book a few days ago: $3.25 including shipping as part of a larger bundle. How can they do that? No wonder USPS is bleeding red ink.</p>
<p>Move to Camas, Washington. No state income tax, and do all your purchases right across the street to Oregon which has no sales tax… Problem solved :-)</p>
<p>NH has no income or sales taxes.</p>
<p>“Those who think that 6 or 7 percent would put either Amazon or Walmart at a competitive disadvantage may want to compare prices more carefully.”</p>
<p>There are people that are willing to pay more at a physical store in the community because it keeps more money in the community instead of watching the money get sucked out of the community.</p>
<p>If…after charging sales taxes on internet purchases, people still prefer to buy on the internet, no problem. At least the communities will still get some revenue because of the sales tax.</p>
<p>It depends on where the warehouses are. Amazon put in warehouses in Southborough, MA and now stuff arrives ridiculously fast at the cheapest shipment rates. It creates jobs for those in area (suburb of Worcester which could really use the jobs), and makes Amazon a serious option for buying college textbooks without worrying that it will take two weeks to arrive.</p>
<p>People all over the country and world buy the products that we make in our area. I’m pretty happy that they buy our stuff instead of buying stuff that might be locally created. The variables are price, quality, support and the availability of people trained on our product.</p>
<p>If people want to buy products from your area… great. If I buy a product from your area, I should pay the same sales taxes as if I bought the product down the street.</p>
<p>If I buy something from Amazon, two minutes of clicking and it’s delivered to my doorstep two days later.
If I want the same book from a local store, I have to drive there, try to get a parking spot, hope that the book is in stock, wait in a line to be rung up by a cashier, and then drive home. That local experience has an impact to my community for streets and parking that the Amazon order doesn’t have.</p>
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<p>You are certainly welcome to send in a payment with your annual state tax return.</p>
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<p>The greener solution I guess. People where I work usually have stuff shipped to the office. This means that UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc. can send one truck per day to the office and the employees are already here anyways so that they don’t have to make an extra trip to a retail store reducing traffic, pollution, accidents and our fuel demand.</p>
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<p>Which communities?</p>
<p>“You are certainly welcome to send in a payment with your annual state tax return.”</p>
<p>That is such a bs argument…come on…you know you can’t get critical mass if you have to rely on volunteerism to pay taxes…</p>
<p>That argument is what dummies say…you’re not a dummy…</p>
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<p>Let’s look at what you originally wrote:</p>
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<p>You refer to yourself in this post.</p>
<p>Now let’s look at what I wrote:</p>
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<p>My response seems quite reasonable to your post.</p>
<p>Massachusetts has high taxes. So those within 30 miles of the border
with NH will make shopping trips here to buy things. Simon Property
Group is going to build the larges Outlet Shopping Mall in New England
just over the border in NH. It will be a Premium Outlets mall with the
town square look (individual buildings instead of an enclosed mall).
The idea is to attract customers from the Boston area that don’t want
to deal with parking and sales tax, visitors from Canada that don’t
want to pay VAT and those from the UK and Europe here on ski and shop
vacations that also don’t want to pay their VAT.</p>
<p>There is already a moderate underground economy in MA for those that
don’t live near the border - basically someone goes to a state and
buys a bunch of cigarettes or alcohol and brings it back for their
friends and family. I find it interesting that a legislator that
backed higher alcohol taxes was caught buying a lot of alcohol in a
New Hampshire state liquor store on his way back from Maine.</p>
<p>When interviewed, he said that he would send in the payment for
Massachusetts use taxes. See, people do voluntarily pay the tax.</p>
<p>Not in critical mass…</p>
<p>Amazon made a similar jobs for no sales tax proposal in Texas. I lost track of how it turned out.</p>