@Dizavid no matter what the actual mechanics of it are, the ultimate reason meh is collecting tax on your purchase is because of someone in your government. If they were like “Sales tax? Nah” then I’m sure meh would be happy not to have to expend labor to collect and remit it. It increases their costs by some amount to do so.
So whether it’s that meh hired someone in your state or built a home for out-of-work video puppets that establishes nexus there, or just that the state realized they exist and began to require it, it’s ultimately because the state desires the tax and not that meh just decided to tax you.
So IMO, if “fuck!” is to be directed somewhere, the appropriate place would be to the taxers themselves. Or, you could alternately direct a “thanks for the roads and what not, yo.” their way.
Amazon is so big, they likely have had nexus in your state for a long time. And even if they don’t, they were directly the subject of controversy about state sales taxes such that I believe every state demanded taxes be collected. Plus I think they may have done a little good guy move and volunteered to just collect every state’s sales tax when the commotion got to a certain level because it benefitted them to do so.
Mediocre likely hired someone from your state as a remote employee. Apparently, having an employee in any given state is enough to make that state demand its piece of the action.
@lljk@ThomasF Doesnt explain Mediocre charging sales tax on VMP membership service fee. VMP offers no tangible good being sold, and is not subject to sales tax.
And yet Meh collects it, much like shithole merchants collecting sales tax on gift cards (where you would pay sales tax again when you redeem them).
@unksol Wrong. It was and is restraint of interstate trade and it is beyond offensive. But any means of .gov taxing its citizen-subjects every action and activity seems to be getting green-lighted.
I got a letter from Summit earlier this year, paraphrasing: “Hey, remember those pistons you bought last year that we didn’t charge you tax on? We’ve informed your state tax collector about that.” Maybe better to charge it up front than have potential bureaucratic stuff to deal with later. (I’ve just ignored the letter.)
@walarney I received a similar letter from Summit. I’ve spent many thousands of dollars with Summit for the bits and parts of my various projects. If my state decides to asses back taxes it will add up to a very considerable sum.
I suggest you direct that fuck towards your state legislature (or treasurer? IDK, someone in the statehouse.)
@djslack Amazon has been charging me tax for the longest, so I don’t know about this being entirely necessary.
@Dizavid no matter what the actual mechanics of it are, the ultimate reason meh is collecting tax on your purchase is because of someone in your government. If they were like “Sales tax? Nah” then I’m sure meh would be happy not to have to expend labor to collect and remit it. It increases their costs by some amount to do so.
So whether it’s that meh hired someone in your state or built a home for out-of-work video puppets that establishes nexus there, or just that the state realized they exist and began to require it, it’s ultimately because the state desires the tax and not that meh just decided to tax you.
So IMO, if “fuck!” is to be directed somewhere, the appropriate place would be to the taxers themselves. Or, you could alternately direct a “thanks for the roads and what not, yo.” their way.
Amazon is so big, they likely have had nexus in your state for a long time. And even if they don’t, they were directly the subject of controversy about state sales taxes such that I believe every state demanded taxes be collected. Plus I think they may have done a little good guy move and volunteered to just collect every state’s sales tax when the commotion got to a certain level because it benefitted them to do so.
Mediocre likely hired someone from your state as a remote employee. Apparently, having an employee in any given state is enough to make that state demand its piece of the action.
@lljk This ^
@lljk @ThomasF Doesnt explain Mediocre charging sales tax on VMP membership service fee. VMP offers no tangible good being sold, and is not subject to sales tax.
And yet Meh collects it, much like shithole merchants collecting sales tax on gift cards (where you would pay sales tax again when you redeem them).
Because you should have been paying it all along and now the laws are catching up with us all.
@unksol I’m sure they were reporting it on their income taxes.
@unksol Wrong. It was and is restraint of interstate trade and it is beyond offensive. But any means of .gov taxing its citizen-subjects every action and activity seems to be getting green-lighted.
I’ve always had to pay the tax…so…
Blame
the goatSouth Dakota.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.
@narfcake Wow, our url parser didn’t catch the period at the end of that url. Wikipedia is insane.
I got a letter from Summit earlier this year, paraphrasing: “Hey, remember those pistons you bought last year that we didn’t charge you tax on? We’ve informed your state tax collector about that.” Maybe better to charge it up front than have potential bureaucratic stuff to deal with later. (I’ve just ignored the letter.)
@walarney I received a similar letter from Summit. I’ve spent many thousands of dollars with Summit for the bits and parts of my various projects. If my state decides to asses back taxes it will add up to a very considerable sum.
@walarney wtf. Terrible
/giphy karma
