Marketplace Fairness Act
Marketplace Fairness Act
This Marketplace Fairness Act is not about being fair to traditional local stores or about the competitive advantage that virtual stores have over brick-and-mortar retailers but about many States needing revenue to provide social services and other important emergency services that are vital to the city, county and states.
It is true that online retailer have many advantages over the traditional local stores taxes are not the only disadvantages they have there is also other operational expenses like rental of showrooms, storage, utilities, distribution cost, payroll, advertising; but small mom and papa shops also are competing with Warehouse clubs and superstore giants like Walt-mart; there is no a legal way to level the playing field for all the disadvantages.
However paying sales taxes in all goods and services is the law and there should not be exemptions and special treatment for internet retailers or any other kind whether they are in Main Street or not.
The sales taxes laws are no new, and this bill is only allowing the collection of existing taxes; since Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward came out with their Sales first catalog or when catalog sales became popular there was always a way to collect taxes. New technology is changing the way we do business but that should not be an excuse to make exceptions or to put traditional retailers that are an integral part of their communities in more disadvantages position that they already are.
Smaller Web retailers have opposed the Marketplace Fairness Act, however, arguing that it would be too difficult to calculate and collect sales taxes from every state and locality that requires them.
As online retailers oppose to the legislation most of the burden of this tax fall on the buyer, not in the seller, the buyer will have to pay up to 10.725% more for their purchases depending where their place of residence is located but it is also true that it will be complicated to
This Marketplace Fairness Act is not about being fair to traditional local stores or about the competitive advantage that virtual stores have over brick-and-mortar retailers but about many States needing revenue to provide social services and other important emergency services that are vital to the city, county and states.
It is true that online retailer have many advantages over the traditional local stores taxes are not the only disadvantages they have there is also other operational expenses like rental of showrooms, storage, utilities, distribution cost, payroll, advertising; but small mom and papa shops also are competing with Warehouse clubs and superstore giants like Walt-mart; there is no a legal way to level the playing field for all the disadvantages.
However paying sales taxes in all goods and services is the law and there should not be exemptions and special treatment for internet retailers or any other kind whether they are in Main Street or not.
The sales taxes laws are no new, and this bill is only allowing the collection of existing taxes; since Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward came out with their Sales first catalog or when catalog sales became popular there was always a way to collect taxes. New technology is changing the way we do business but that should not be an excuse to make exceptions or to put traditional retailers that are an integral part of their communities in more disadvantages position that they already are.
Smaller Web retailers have opposed the Marketplace Fairness Act, however, arguing that it would be too difficult to calculate and collect sales taxes from every state and locality that requires them.
As online retailers oppose to the legislation most of the burden of this tax fall on the buyer, not in the seller, the buyer will have to pay up to 10.725% more for their purchases depending where their place of residence is located but it is also true that it will be complicated to