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B&H Launching Payboo to Combat Online Taxes

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Re: B&H Launching Payboo to Combat Online Taxes

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Post by schnoid »

gmjosack wrote: post #8
schnoid wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you paid sales tax to your state every time you purchased an item out of state before the supreme court ruling? You know you were legally obligated to pay even though the company didn't collect the taxes right?

Regardless of my ability to accurately account for my online purchases, I prefer online sites take the correct amount of taxes to reduce my liability in regard to accurately accounting for my online purchases.

more power to you. Personally I prefer to pay during tax time rather than at time of purchase. Or better yet, if this is now a federal sales tax then make it a federal sales tax. Stop acting like we're all obligated to pay different amounts depending on state.

Re: B&H Launching Payboo to Combat Online Taxes

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Post by schnoid »

tlccom wrote: post #9

I support them 100% and I do not support paying taxes to out of state orders. Soon will be eBay and Amazon. California and New York keeping companies away with their rules and taxes so let them try harder to attract companies.

yea, in CA and NY we already pay outrageous property, income, and sales taxes. Is it really that ridiculous to not want to pay our entire salary to taxes?

Re: B&H Launching Payboo to Combat Online Taxes

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Post by gmjosack »

schnoid wrote: post #11
gmjosack wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless of my ability to accurately account for my online purchases, I prefer online sites take the correct amount of taxes to reduce my liability in regard to accurately accounting for my online purchases.

more power to you. Personally I prefer to pay during tax time rather than at time of purchase. Or better yet, if this is now a federal sales tax then make it a federal sales tax. Stop acting like we're all obligated to pay different amounts depending on state.

Taxes stress me out. If the government could easily send me a bill of my sales taxes at the end of the year I might prefer that but given the system we have I rather pay at time of purchase over manual and more error prone tracking over a year.

Regardless, and maybe it's not a great distinction, I find a difference in a company not charging sales tax vs a company sending an excited e-mail about how they've found a loophole to avoid sales tax. Maybe that's just me.

Re: B&H Launching Payboo to Combat Online Taxes

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Post by Johnny555 »

schnoid wrote: post #7
gmjosack wrote: post #6

I was seriously so confused my this e-mail. I've found great deals on B&H in the past but getting e-mails telling me about a neat trick to evade taxes leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

So you paid sales tax to your state every time you purchased an item out of state before the supreme court ruling? You know you were legally obligated to pay even though the company didn't collect the taxes right?

There's a big difference between neglecting to go the extra mile to do the accounting and register with the state to pay use-tax on out of state purchases, and deliberately using some service to get around the tax requirement. I'm surprised there's even a legal workaround (as opposed to some accounting trick that makes it harder to trace the purchase back to you, but doesn't really eliminate your requirement to pay the tax).
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