I know many of you have heard the controversy about Wayfair and Amazon paying taxes. This week’s episode dives into the recent Supreme Court ruling that online businesses must pay taxes and the effect on smaller, primarily online businesses. About Brad Scott and Wayfair Advocacy Brad Scott joins Kelly as a guest to give an…
Chicago raised eyebrows when the city announced a streaming tax on Netflix and similar internet services. The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging the tax on behalf of Chicago taxpayers. This week, a court ruled in favor of the city, upholding the tax.
Congress was back at it this week, trying to reach an agreement on spending. If there’s no bill in place by midnight Friday, we’ll see another government shutdown. In the middle of the battle, there may be a twist: the rush to regulate online sales tax.
I’m not going shopping today. I’m not making some kind of a statement. I simply have too much to do: there are breads to bake, casseroles to heat and pie crusts to roll out in advance of dinner for fifteen people. There is hot chocolate to be made for those braving the sledding hills. There…
If you’re clicking through the internet today hoping to do a little shopping, you likely have Aaron Montgomery Ward to thank. On August 18, 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward produced the first Montgomery Ward mail order catalog, largely thought to be the first mail order catalog meant for the general public (Tiffany claims that their Blue…
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 their hands on the book, Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko, this semester for classroom reading. The book was published in 2006 and I assumed it would not…
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 have taken a stance on the issue have supported online sales tax collection, including New Jersey’s Chris Christie, Tennessee’s Bill Haslam, Iowa’s Terry Branstad, and Michigan’s Rick Snyder (all Republicans,…
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 accounts for the rich, but this dealing with unpaid sales tax. It is only when I decided to venture out to the stores during Florida’s “Back to School Sales Tax…
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 online businesses. My experience as a small business owner has been exactly the opposite. State efforts at online sales tax collection have made it much, much easier to run my…
As I have done for the past few years, I’ll be turning over the blog to my readers for the last week in August. But this year, I’m doing things a little differently. I received so many submissions last year that I have to put some brakes on the numbers of submissions I’ll be posting….
