[nylug-talk] [OT] internet sales tax for NY in Dec. and the US?

[Kevin Mark]

Hi NY residents who shop on ´the tubes',

Just heard about this issue where Spitzer is challanging a SCOTUS
ruling which disallowed sales tax to be collected on the internet. This
what the reporter on this site[0] says about it:

Such a move would be in direct defiance of the letter and principle of
the National Bellas Hess decision rendered by the United State Supreme
Court in 1967, and which has been the law of the land ever since. Simply
put, the ruling provided that, unless a company had a physical nexus in
a particular state other than its own, e.g. brick and mortar offices or
sales outlets, sales reps, etc. it could not be required to collect and
remit sales taxes on behalf of other states from sales made to residents
of those states by mail order or phone.

Such a move would allow the current federal moritorium on internet taxes
to be overruled. Yikes!
-K

[0] http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/spitzers_attempted_tax_grab_co.html
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