Amazon sales tax

[Seymore]

Article just release on the Clarion Ledger website.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news ... /97016758/

[StraightUp]

It was bound to happen. Lawmakers are always looking for revenue.

[1010]

That sucks bigly!!

[teul2]

Pretty sure they are building a distribution center in Olive Branch, MS right now. That's the rummor anyway. So, it was going to happen anyway I believe.

[Smoke68]

I don't want to pay sales tax for online purchases, but I really feel for the mom and pop stores that have to charge the tax while online companies don't. Fair is fair.

[Matt S]

Amazon started charging tax in La Jan 1. I think it's 5% in La.

[Seymore]

Mississippi was looking into litigation joined by several other states against Amazon over sales tax. Amazon looked at the cost of litigation versus the cost of collecting the tax and made a business decision. Amazon will most definitely lose sales by starting to collect the tax and they took that variable into consideration in deciding to collect.

[1010]

If the amazon vendors don't also collect the tax it shouldn't be a problem, you can just order directly from them rather than amazon!
If the tax collection was for the mom and pop stores for a break I might would appreciate it better, and if my tax money was used for legit things!
With the current trump climate (less tax) amazon might have never been sued by ms! Amazon folded like a cheap politician!

[peewee]

I am betting this starts a wave a direct vendor sales.

[lilwhitelie]

Back to ebay

[edub20]

Back to ebay

That 2 day prime shipping is still nice though compared to having to pay ebay for faster shipping.

[southdeltan]

I have no issue with this. I agree about the mom/pop stores having to collect the tax. It's still going to be cheaper for us - now if we had to pay shipping that would be an issue.

The law they're attempting to pass (and I suppose they will) says that companies who do more than $250 grand worth of business in MS will have to collect internet taxes.

If that passes, eBay will have to collect taxes as well. eBay doesn't have the deals it used to have in my experience - most of the buy it now stuff is like a dollar less than other online vendors. eBay's still great for finding rare stuff and occasionally winning a bidding war - but I just don't have time to do that, if I want something I'd rather just order it and get it in the mail.

[booger]

I suppose this has already been litigated? or it certainly will.

If I travel to Mobile, Alabama and buy fuzzy slippers, then return to Mississippi, I don't pay Mississippi sales tax. My purchase was taxed there, money was spent there.

Say a fellar lives in Oregon and selling fuzzy slippers online. If I buy a pair from him, my money goes to an Oregon bank, his slippers are in Oregon, he's in Oregon, why wouldn't I pay Oregon sales tax?

Same as going to Mobile, except I didn't get off the couch.

Only the Feds can regulate interstate commerce, isn't that right?

boog the mystified.

[southdeltan]

One thing about Amazon is they're rumored to be building a distribution site in MS. If so, then they'd have to collect tax anyway. They volunteered to do this - I'm not sure the status of the bill that's in the Legislature but I'm pretty sure it is still alive.

But you bring up an interesting point.