{"id":132306,"date":"2016-12-14T23:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T06:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/state-governments-will-get-invoices-of-stuff-you-buy-online-oh-boy.html"},"modified":"2016-12-15T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T04:27:47","slug":"state-governments-will-get-invoices-of-stuff-you-buy-online-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/state-governments-will-get-invoices-of-stuff-you-buy-online-oh-boy.html","title":{"rendered":"State governments will get invoices of stuff you buy online. Oh, boy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the growth of sales taxing of online purchases, and some oddities around SCOTUS rulings, states that are collecting sales taxes from online vendors will now not only get the taxes levied, but a line item list of what it was you bought, so that the state governments can verify the taxes remitted are on the up and up.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, that vibrator, or that copy of the Koran, or that book on how to cheat on your spouse, or that video that the current party in power was so outraged about, or that porno DVD, or pretty much anything you buy from Amazon, eBay, or any other online vendor, will all be in a state government database, just waiting for some bureaucrat or law enforcement officer to decide to data mine for some more interesting purpose (or for some hacker to break into it for ditto).<\/p>\n

I suspect this will get litigated pretty quickly, because the room for abuse here is nightmarish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nIf you bought a dildo in Denver, the government must legally be told<\/a><\/span>
\nOr smut in South Dakota, Anarchist Cookbook in Alabama or Windows 10 in Wyoming\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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As part of the growth of sales taxing of online purchases, and some oddities around SCOTUS rulings, states that are collecting sales taxes from online vendors will now not only get the taxes levied, but a line item list of what it was you bought, so that the state governments can verify the taxes remitted … Continue reading “State governments will get invoices of stuff you buy online. 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