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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 2038597, member: 28199&quot;]I agree with most of what you say.&nbsp; In this day and age, any retailer should have some kind of on-line presence.&nbsp; But keep in mind, under current regulations (and I can only speak for Pennsylvania), any on-line retailer with any type of physical presence in PA already is required to collect and submit the 6% PA sales tax to the PA Dept. of Revenue.&nbsp; Buy from a WalMart warehouse in Arkansas, you will still pay the 6% sales tax to PA.&nbsp; You won&#039;t, however, pay the Arkansas sales tax.&nbsp; Amazon will also collect the 6%.&nbsp; Keep in mind the buyer, not the seller, is responsible for paying any sales tax.&nbsp; So the bill in question only requires the seller to collect the tax, not pay it (instead, they forward the collected tax to the appropriate Dept. of Revenue).</p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of people on this forum who buy and sell on eBay will not be affected by this bill.&nbsp; For one, there is an exemption for business who do under a million dollars in sales per year.&nbsp; For another, most of the eBay sellers who have a large presence on that service already collect sales taxes for their home state.&nbsp; This bill would just be an additional tool for other states to collect taxes already due them, that PA already tries to do with the Use Tax I mentioned earlier.&nbsp; I equate most smaller eBay sellers to flea market vendors.&nbsp; The only real difference being the eBay fees to set up and sell verses paying for tables and space at the flea market.&nbsp; These types of sellers do not collect and pay sales taxes.&nbsp; Some should, but undocumented inventory and cash sales makes it easy to hide total revenue, and in PA&#039;s case there probably isn&#039;t enough money from flea market sales to justify going after this revenue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree with the pressure to pass this bill coming from B&amp;M stores to level the playing field in retail sales.&nbsp; They really have little to gain with passage of this bill.&nbsp; I firmly believe pressure to pass this legislation is coming directly from the state governments, as they are the ones with most to gain by its passage.&nbsp; I honestly do not think passage of this bill will greatly affect the buyers, other than having to pay addition sales tax where they not have previously, but a brick and mortar store has always had to collect sales tax in the state in which they do business, whether the buyer is from in-state or not.&nbsp; Ever go on vacation out of your state?&nbsp; Have you ever walked into a store and received a tax exemption because you are from another state?&nbsp; No, you probably paid that state&#039;s sales tax.&nbsp; For instance, in PA, the sales tax is 6%.&nbsp; In Allegheny County, there is an additional sales tax of 1% for RAD (Regional Asset District, this pays for all the art and culture).&nbsp; I do not live in Allegheny County, so all of what I buy is taxed at 6%.&nbsp; If I shop in the City of Pittsburgh, it doesn&#039;t matter that I live in another county.&nbsp; I still pay 7% on any taxable items I buy.&nbsp; All this bill aims to do is enforce sales tax regulations already in place, it adds no additional fees to the mix for the retailer, and forces the buyer to pay what he&#039;s already required to pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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