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Spitzer, Amazon.com At Odds Over Sales Tax

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Spitzer Amazoncom At Odds Over Sales Tax

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wants all online retailers to collect tax on New York sales, even if the retailer is not based in the state. Spitzer, Amazon.com At Odds Over Sales Tax' /></p> In online commerce, consumers are supposed to pay tax on their purchases if their state normally collects a sales tax. This has not been enforced outside of companies with a physical presence inside a state, an example being dsports.com, which will charge me 6 percent Kentucky sales tax when I buy a Giants Super Bowl Championship hat from their website.</p> Purchases on Amazon don't trigger a sales tax charge, since Amazon is based in Washington state. I will have to fork over a few bucks as an honest citizen at tax time for buying a few things on the site in 2007.</p> Spitzer's position as noted in the <a href=Vertex Inc on Bits as a program to accomplish this.

It's a contentious issue that will become even more so, as people argue the merits of paying tax to a state that does not provide services to an out of state retailer, as some Bits commenters argued. Habitually cash-strapped states will probably try to follow New York's lead, if Spitzer succeeds.

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