Politicians, retailers push for new Internet sales taxes<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe halcyon days of tax-free Internet shopping may soon be over, if Congress approves a proposed federal law supported by Wal-Mart and other big-box stores. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Because if Internet companies like Amazon aren't forced to collect sales taxes, then Main Street companies will go out of business which will wipe out the support for your local Little League team! Honest! Um … Okay, it's a complicated equation. Lack of sales tax payment does provide Internet vendors an advantage … except that, … Continue reading “The Little League Internet Tax cometh”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33621,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/internet-sales-taxes-advance.html","url_meta":{"origin":27439,"position":0},"title":"Internet sales taxes advance","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-May-13 8:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And, yeah, it's probably time. \u00a0Three notes on the article:1. Do less than $1MM in online sales a year, you're exempt. Hardly onerous on little mom-pop sales order shops.2. The provisions for states to give retailers the ability to calculate the tax and centralize tax payments makes this close to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50203,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/one-tax-subsidy-to-the-nfl-down.html","url_meta":{"origin":27439,"position":1},"title":"One tax subsidy to the NFL down","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Apr-15 4:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So it's good, in a pro forma sense, that the NFL will no longer be 501(c)(6) tax-exempt entity, because, really?Not touched are the billions in local tax subsidies to NFL teams to build ever-shinier and grander stadiums from which to earn more money through ticket sales. 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