California Taxing Internet! COMPANIES BAIL!

[Thunder]

Good point.... just seems odd, at least to me, to see people complain about having to pay sales tax when they probably don't report the sales tax they take in...

*facepalms* People just love to wrongly assume these days.

[windowphobe]

Oklahoma has collected USE TAXES for at least a decade...

The tax was enacted in 1937, though one could argue that they didn't go to a whole lot of trouble to collect it.

[Questor]

Here's the difference: if I go to Texas and I phsyically buy something in person, and their tax rate is the same or greater than ours, then the tax I pay goes entirely to Texas, not Oklahoma. What Oklahoma and other states want to do is require the selling entity, which resides in another state, to collect Oklahoma tax and turn all of it over to Oklahoma. I'm sorry, but that doesn't seem fair to me. I would love for this to backfire on all the states by eventually everyone just allowing the online retailers to charge taxes at the rate their resident state does, and then hand that tax over to their local state. Why should Oklahoma be able to horn in on the better business climate and profits of businesses operating in other states? Maybe if that was the law we would spend less time trying to figure out how to slice and dice someones purchases and more time on improving the business climate here and drawing businesses into this state. Instead I see virtually nothing like that going on at the state level.