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1. 07:09 AM - internet sales taxes (Vince Frazier)
2. 08:00 AM - Re: internet sales taxes (Rob Ray)
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| Subject: | internet sales taxes |
Most guys on this list are probably planning to buy, or already have
bought a lot of stuff from various online retailers like Aircraft Spruce,
or maybe even from us, Flyboy Accessories. The feds and the states want to
enact new sales taxes on internet sales. If this happens, it will drive
many small companies, like Flyboy Accessories, right out of business.
There is NO way that we'd be able to handle the additional work required to
track sales taxes for 49 other states (including those who don't currently
have a sales tax... we'd still have to track it!).
Currently, the buyer (you) are responsible to remit sales taxes to your
state on anything you buy from out of state. I know that compliance to
this regulation is sometimes slim, but that is no reason to shift the
liability to the innocent merchant!
How does an internet sales tax affect you? Well, if you live in a state
where there is no sales tax, your choices of where to buy will decrease and
prices will go up. If you live in any of the other states where there is a
sales tax, your choices of where to buy will decrease and prices will go
up.... AND if you're building an airplane, you're gonna have to prove to
your Department of Revenue which items on your plane have already had the
tax paid and which haven't.
I recently contact the Indiana DoR and asked how they'd handle this. They
said that they had no mechanism to handle it. So, basically until the
states catch up with the new tax code (which they probably won't do for a
small niche like aviation) then there's a very good chance that you'll pay
double sales taxes on many of your purchases! In other words, when you
register your plane and the state says "Where's my sales tax money?" you'll
have to either jump through hoops to convince them that you've already
paid, or you'll simply pay the taxes again!
This discussion could devolve into a big anti-government thread. Please
refrain from that. We all agree that the government is far too big and out
of control. On the new sales tax topic, please direct your energies toward
contacting your federal and state representatives and senators...
particularly the FEDERAL ones! I have attached a sample letter to them
below my signature.
Again, I'd strongly encourage you to make time today to contact your two
U.S. senators and your U.S. congressman and pass the message below, or a
similar message, to them either by phone, email, or snail mail. Emailing
them is easily done through their contact form online. You won't find a
bona fide email address and must use the contact form on their website for
most federal officials.
Thanks,
Vince Frazier
Flyboy Accessories
3963 Caborn Road North
Mount Vernon, IN 47620
812-464-1839
1-888-8FLYBOY
1-888-835-9269
www.flyboyaccessories.com
*As a small business customer, I can tell you that the surefire way to kill
a small business is to add new onerous regulations to the already
overwhelming burden that the government has already saddled them with.
There has been much talk about adding internet sales taxes to "level" the
playing field. This is baloney. The field is already heavily tilted
toward large businesses like Walmart. Adding new internet sales taxes is a
MONEY GRAB and will KILL SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION.
Is that what you really want? I doubt it.
1. Vote No against adding Internet Sales Taxes to the Budget Resolution.
2. Don't be fooled, real people don't want new tax burdens of any kind on
the Internet.
3. New taxes on the Internet will hurt consumers, small businesses, jobs
and growth.
4. No small business should ever be able to be sued by another state where
they have no connection or right to vote and be dragged into that states=92
courts.
*
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| Subject: | Re: internet sales taxes |
Vince, as a small businessman I couldn't agree more. All representatives ha
ve email addresses and websites, the power of the pen notwithstanding!
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves
and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
V/R
Smokey
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Vince Frazier <vincefrazier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most guys on this list are probably planning to buy, or already have boug
ht a lot of stuff from various online retailers like Aircraft Spruce, or may
be even from us, Flyboy Accessories. The feds and the states want to enact n
ew sales taxes on internet sales. If this happens, it will drive many small
companies, like Flyboy Accessories, right out of business. There is NO way
that we'd be able to handle the additional work required to track sales tax
es for 49 other states (including those who don't currently have a sales tax
... we'd still have to track it!).
>
> Currently, the buyer (you) are responsible to remit sales taxes to your st
ate on anything you buy from out of state. I know that compliance to this r
egulation is sometimes slim, but that is no reason to shift the liability to
the innocent merchant!
>
> How does an internet sales tax affect you? Well, if you live in a state w
here there is no sales tax, your choices of where to buy will decrease and p
rices will go up. If you live in any of the other states where there is a s
ales tax, your choices of where to buy will decrease and prices will go up..
.. AND if you're building an airplane, you're gonna have to prove to your De
partment of Revenue which items on your plane have already had the tax paid a
nd which haven't.
>
> I recently contact the Indiana DoR and asked how they'd handle this. They
said that they had no mechanism to handle it. So, basically until the stat
es catch up with the new tax code (which they probably won't do for a small n
iche like aviation) then there's a very good chance that you'll pay double s
ales taxes on many of your purchases! In other words, when you register you
r plane and the state says "Where's my sales tax money?" you'll have to eith
er jump through hoops to convince them that you've already paid, or you'll s
imply pay the taxes again!
>
> This discussion could devolve into a big anti-government thread. Please r
efrain from that. We all agree that the government is far too big and out o
f control. On the new sales tax topic, please direct your energies toward c
ontacting your federal and state representatives and senators... particularl
y the FEDERAL ones! I have attached a sample letter to them below my signat
ure.
>
> Again, I'd strongly encourage you to make time today to contact your two U
.S. senators and your U.S. congressman and pass the message below, or a simi
lar message, to them either by phone, email, or snail mail. Emailing them i
s easily done through their contact form online. You won't find a bona fide
email address and must use the contact form on their website for most feder
al officials.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vince Frazier
> Flyboy Accessories
> 3963 Caborn Road North
> Mount Vernon, IN 47620
> 812-464-1839
> 1-888-8FLYBOY
> 1-888-835-9269
> www.flyboyaccessories.com
>
>
> As a small business customer, I can tell you that the surefire way to kill
a small business is to add new onerous regulations to the already overwhelm
ing burden that the government has already saddled them with.
>
> There has been much talk about adding internet sales taxes to "level" the p
laying field. This is baloney. The field is already heavily tilted toward l
arge businesses like Walmart. Adding new internet sales taxes is a MONEY GR
AB and will KILL SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION.
>
> Is that what you really want? I doubt it.
>
> 1. Vote No against adding Internet Sales Taxes to the Budget Resolution.
> 2. Don't be fooled, real people don't want new tax burdens of any kind on t
he Internet.
> 3. New taxes on the Internet will hurt consumers, small businesses, jobs a
nd growth.
> 4. No small business should ever be able to be sued by another state where
they have no connection or right to vote and be dragged into that states
=99 courts.
>
>
>
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