A few moments ago, there was a knock on my door. It was a delivery from Amazon.com. My daughter’s 5th-grade class requires that students get
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Guest Post: Taxing Online Sales Is Fair
Submitted by DAVID CAMPBELL Is it fair to require online retailers to collect and remit state sales tax? In a word, yes. Most governors who
Read MoreGuest Post: Online Sales Tax
Submitted by KARA HAAS In recent years online shopping has become an unspoken tax haven. It seems as though it is similar to offshore bank
Read MoreGuest Post: Why I Support The Marketplace Fairness Act
Submitted by STEN R. WILSON Everyone seems to think that online sales tax collection is about large online companies, like Amazon, trying to crush small
Read MoreCyber Monday Sales Tax Free For Many – But For How Long?
I don’t do the whole Black Friday thing. There is nothing (and I mean nothing) that I want/need/crave/desire enough to stand in line with a
Read MoreAre We Creeping Closer To An Internet Sales Tax?
Like you didn’t see this coming… Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), together with Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), will, if all goes according to plan, announce intentions
Read MoreHey Congress, Why Don’t You…? Replace Income Tax With Sales Tax
William Gifford, MBA, writes: Congress should eliminate the current system altogether. Throw out the federal income tax because it’s too broken to be fixed. In
Read MoreAsk The Taxgirl: Online Sales
Taxpayer asks: We think we might need some tax advice, regarding the teen’s CD. Obviously we’re charging sales tax (.0655%) so that his $9.99 CD
Read MoreIs Stripping Art?
A New York judge seems to think so. Administrative Law Judge Catherine M. Bennett has ruled that the eloquently named Nite Moves, a strip club
Read MoreGovernor Pat Quinn Proposes More Taxes In IL: Residents Worry Air Is Next
Illinois residents have been willing to deal with some pretty steep tax increases. But Gov. Pat Quinn may have gone too far this time: Quinn
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