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Originally Posted by irmanator
in reference to disney steve, ya know I started to reply wanting to debate you but after I thought about it harder your right. lol
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To be honest, as a customer, I really don't care if online merchants charge sales tax or not. Since the purchase price is lower, I'd be saving money either way. If you add sales tax to the examples I gave above, the online purchases still would have been cheaper.
The problem comes on the merchant end. As an ebay seller, I can't imagine having to collect sales tax on every sale I make. There are 50 states, which is tough enough (though a couple have no sales tax) but then there are multiple sales tax rates within a state. I don't know how I would track that or how I'd report it and submit the tax collected. I do collect and submit sales tax in NJ and that's enough of a pain. To do that hundreds of times to cover every jurisdiction I sell in would be insane.