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Both e-tailers have claimed that New York’s state law forcing them to collect sales tax on online purchases is unconstitutional.
The original complaint had been dismissed.
Amazon and Overstock filed their cases in early 2008 and have been collecting taxes on purchases from NY buyers ever since while they await the case.
Cnet got a quote from Brad [...]
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The sound and fury on Question 3 in the November ballot has been whether or not to reduce the sales tax rate from 6.25 percent to 3 percent. Little or no time has been spent in looking at the law itself and how it operates to see if it costs more to operate than it [...]
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he state’s nonpartisan budget analyst testified Wednesday that a revenue-raising plan proposed by legislative Democrats would result in a net tax increase for most taxpayers with incomes from $20,000 to $200,000 a year, but joined other experts in praising the idea of changing state tax policy to take better advantage of federal tax law.
The plan [...]
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Come July, shoppers in Kansas will be handing over more money on every purchase because of a sales tax increase at odds with the state’s image as a conservative stronghold.
Even as Republicans from Kansas talk up lower taxes and smaller government in Congress, the GOP-led state Legislature approved the jump in sales tax from 5.3 [...]
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The White House pushed back Monday on a report that administration officials had examined the impact of a national sales tax as a way to help close the federal budget’s gaping deficit.
“The president has not proposed this idea nor is it under consideration,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Talk of the tax was kicked [...]
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The Obama administration is creating a crisis so that they can solve it with a mechanism that will serve as the catalyst for future spending on their massive government programs. And even though our president said he wouldn’t raise taxes on 95% of Americans while he was on the campaign trail, get ready for the [...]
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The first training seminar regarding the new sales tax law for businesses will be held Monday at the Augusta Civic Center.
Recent legislation has made a number of changes to the sales, use, and service provider tax laws.
The Maine Revenue Service is holding a number of seminars for business owners to explain the changes.
Monday’s sessions will [...]
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The Arizona Senate defeated a tax bill Wednesday that would have put Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposed sales tax hike on the ballot for voters to decide.
The 14-11 vote was two votes short of what’s needed for passage, and an effort to resurrect the proposed sales tax failed on a 15-10 vote.
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The Massachusetts Senate voted last night to increase the sales tax, lift the sales tax exemption on alcohol, and allow cities and towns to raise meals and hotel taxes, brushing aside criticism that higher taxes would hurt Massachusetts businesses by driving consumers over the border, particularly to tax-free New Hampshire.
The Senate plan, which cleared the [...]
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