Comments on: States push for piece of online sales

New York and California are among the states asking residents to wade through arcane formulas to calculate sales taxes on Internet purchases and other out-of-state transactions.

That is what they need to do

The story mentions stopping the UPS trucks. Yes, that is what they need to do. The delivery services like UPS, FEDEX, etc. need to be franchised in their State. So, if a delivery is to be made to an individual in a State with a sales tax, that is coming from a business, a statement of sales price needs to be made from that business. The shipping cost should then include the sales tax. Nothing more, nothing less. The shipping company fails to get a franchise in the Sales tax states cannot deliver. This should go for the USPS as well.

Rich

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They can't do that

If they have to stop the litle brown trucks, to be fair they should do the same for the blue and white ( ie usps) truks as well. I just don't see them anytime soon interfering with interstate commerce and the usps that is a federal entity.

Repeal the Use Tax

It *is* a ripoff. They're picking your pocket.

Get real

Sure, but somebody has to pay for the things that Government provides. If the people in your State have approved a "use tax" or "sales tax" to do so, you are obilgated to pay it until you do get it repealed. (Of course you can move to Texas or Oregon that don't have said taxes.) The point is that these states with approved use tax are not able to collect those taxes from businesses outside of their area. (That is as it should be.) They need to collect said taxes from those businesses or people in their area of control. How to do that is the question.

Inmates are running the assylum

When you read stuff like this:

"I remember hearing a governor say that at some point, it's going to come down to having his highway patrol stop all the little brown (United Parcel Service) trucks and see where the stuff is from and where it's going."

It's time to move.

Ya'all Should Come to Texas

No State Tax here at all. No State Tax = No Use Tax. Gotta love that!