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Message 1631303 - Posted: 22 Jan 2015, 18:09:50 UTC

I buy a certain amount of things on Amazon. And see little to entice me to buy into a premium program. Unless I want or need something pronto, I find that Amazon offers free standard shipping on a large percentage of what I wish to buy.
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Message 1631762 - Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 18:26:49 UTC - in response to Message 1628821.  

FWIW, tigerdirect.com has its own version of the "pay us money to join and you'll get free shipping" thing going. I did it one better today, now that they've added an option for store pickup. But the other three things I ordered today weren't available at my local store and I didn't feel like driving to Orland Park, so I had them shipped.

Well... apparently, their computer only checks to see if it's available in the retail store. I could have saved myself the shipping charge by going there and asking for everything to be pulled from the warehouse. Yes, you guessed it, my order was shipped from the warehouse right here, not five miles from my home.
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Message 1631945 - Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 23:54:50 UTC - in response to Message 1631762.  

Not right, but what can you do.

Amazon to start collecting Illinois sales tax

Amazon.com will start collecting sales tax from Illinois shoppers starting Feb. 1, the e-commerce giant said Friday, in compliance with a new state law.

The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, requires out-of-state retailers to collect Illinois' 6.25 percent use tax if they fit certain criteria. The deadline to comply was extended to Feb. 1 to accommodate the busy holiday shopping season.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-amazon-sales-tax-illinois-0124-biz-2-20150123-story.html
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Message 1631995 - Posted: 24 Jan 2015, 2:37:22 UTC - in response to Message 1631945.  

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Amazon to start collecting Illinois sales tax

Amazon.com will start collecting sales tax from Illinois shoppers starting Feb. 1, the e-commerce giant said Friday, in compliance with a new state law.

The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, requires out-of-state retailers to collect Illinois' 6.25 percent use tax if they fit certain criteria. The deadline to comply was extended to Feb. 1 to accommodate the busy holiday shopping season.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-amazon-sales-tax-illinois-0124-biz-2-20150123-story.html

Gotta make sure my boss heard about this. The accountants get VERY snippity when we use taxpayer's money to pay taxes.
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Message 1632153 - Posted: 24 Jan 2015, 8:48:12 UTC

Just send me PM if you have a Tax Question. Answers and Quotes are free.
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Message 1632286 - Posted: 24 Jan 2015, 18:19:36 UTC

As far as I know, ALL states have required sales taxes to be paid on out of state purchases. Wisconsin always has.
I have always just 'paid tribute' by sending them a hundred bucks or so on my income tax return for what I bought online.
I do not keep records, so it was always estimated. But I try to be an honest man, so I send the bit to the man.
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Message 1632289 - Posted: 24 Jan 2015, 18:25:00 UTC - in response to Message 1632286.  

As far as I know, ALL states have required sales taxes to be paid on out of state purchases. Wisconsin always has.
I have always just 'paid tribute' by sending them a hundred bucks or so on my income tax return for what I bought online.
I do not keep records, so it was always estimated. But I try to be an honest man, so I send the bit to the man.

As a citizen of New Hampshire, I pay no sales tax for online purchases. I only pay a sales tax if I travel out of state to purchase in person.

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Message 1632291 - Posted: 24 Jan 2015, 18:28:05 UTC - in response to Message 1632289.  

As far as I know, ALL states have required sales taxes to be paid on out of state purchases. Wisconsin always has.
I have always just 'paid tribute' by sending them a hundred bucks or so on my income tax return for what I bought online.
I do not keep records, so it was always estimated. But I try to be an honest man, so I send the bit to the man.

As a citizen of New Hampshire, I pay no sales tax for online purchases. I only pay a sales tax if I travel out of state to purchase in person.

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OK, state laws may vary...
You just reminded me that some states HAVE no sales tax.

I had forgotten that.
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Message 1632490 - Posted: 25 Jan 2015, 7:09:11 UTC

Yes, but they gouge you when it comes to other taxes. Let me just mention one.. Property taxes
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Message 1632541 - Posted: 25 Jan 2015, 13:44:22 UTC - in response to Message 1632490.  

Yes, but they gouge you when it comes to other taxes. Let me just mention one.. Property taxes

That is an understatement!

We have no sales tax, and no income tax, but we have whopping property tax!

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Message 1632543 - Posted: 25 Jan 2015, 13:54:58 UTC - in response to Message 1632541.  

Yes, but they gouge you when it comes to other taxes. Let me just mention one.. Property taxes

That is an understatement!

We have no sales tax, and no income tax, but we have whopping property tax!

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LOL...we gots all the taxes here......
And now that gas prices have plunged, the clowns are tossing about raising the gas taxes.
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Message 1632612 - Posted: 25 Jan 2015, 17:06:43 UTC - in response to Message 1632541.  
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Yes, but they gouge you when it comes to other taxes. Let me just mention one.. Property taxes

That is an understatement!

We have no sales tax, and no income tax, but we have whopping property tax!

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Here in San Bernardino County CA, the property tax rate is 1% and the amount one pays is based on the sales price after an automatic deduction, My house has has an accessed value of $27,000.00, now there is an automatic deduction of $7,000.00 that makes the value for tax purposes $20,000.00, so I end up paying $200 a year, this is just for the mobile home, since as of yet I don't own any land to go with the mobile home, though that could change after 2017. But I digress.

Sales tax here is 8% in this County, the sales tax varies all over California, in one area where Newegg is located at, Newegg charges 7.5% sales tax, I think Newegg is located in Orange County CA.

Now what do I do on items that have been bought without paying sales tax? Nothing, since I'm not allowed the luxury of filing any sort of income tax form, there is nothing I can do, the legal mechanism just isn't there.

And yes I pay sales tax every time the tax is charged, it's just part of doing business.

Unlike where Newegg is at We have 0.5%(Measure I) out of the 8% devoted to road repair and road construction projects in San Bernardino County, this is a voter approved Sales Tax add on of course.
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Message 1632919 - Posted: 26 Jan 2015, 7:28:07 UTC - in response to Message 1632541.  

Yes, but they gouge you when it comes to other taxes. Let me just mention one.. Property taxes

That is an understatement!

We have no sales tax, and no income tax, but we have whopping property tax!

Steve

LOL, who do you think, I was thinking of.

Still $2,700+ plus here and sales and use tax, gas, cigerette etc pp.

The break I get is no water or sewer bill and the repairs are covered. Free Street Lights. The biggest hits are the Schools and their bonds. If I understand the law right, I might be able to opt out in a decade or so.

I think when all is said and done, we all pay the same amount. Just some states are more open then others.
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Message 1633208 - Posted: 26 Jan 2015, 21:42:05 UTC

Okay, I got my school Amazon account set up to be tax exempt.

Illinois has always (well, for many years, anyway) had a use tax for out of state purchases. There's even a place on the income tax form for you to add use tax that you may owe. I never figured I owed enough to bother with. What changed is that they now require out of state sellers to collect it.
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Message 1633236 - Posted: 26 Jan 2015, 22:23:58 UTC - in response to Message 1633231.  

The USA is made up of 50 separate states,
with separate laws, customs, and histories.
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Message 1633300 - Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 0:23:16 UTC - in response to Message 1633231.  

It just amazes me that the USA has these ridiculous rules about taxes and out of state taxes. In the UK we have one single tax. It used to be called Purchase tax, but they renamed it to VAT, Value Added Tax. That was just an excuse of course to bring more items into the tax bracket. When you are a Chancellor you have to raise money somehow, and by the back door if necessary.

We pay one tax where ever and whatever we buy, that in itself is hard enough to oversee, why you guys make it twice as difficult with Use Tax and Sales Tax seems just silly. You are not a UNITED States of America, you never have been, You are a disparate collection of individual Fiefdoms, each with it's own laws. We had that in the 13-14C in Feudal England with Lords of the Manor and Tithes.

If you put the US tax code in paper form it would be a stack of papers 10 feet high, printed on both sides. Yes it is a bit ridiculous.

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Message 1633304 - Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 0:35:44 UTC - in response to Message 1633300.  

It just amazes me that the USA has these ridiculous rules about taxes and out of state taxes. In the UK we have one single tax. It used to be called Purchase tax, but they renamed it to VAT, Value Added Tax. That was just an excuse of course to bring more items into the tax bracket. When you are a Chancellor you have to raise money somehow, and by the back door if necessary.

We pay one tax where ever and whatever we buy, that in itself is hard enough to oversee, why you guys make it twice as difficult with Use Tax and Sales Tax seems just silly. You are not a UNITED States of America, you never have been, You are a disparate collection of individual Fiefdoms, each with it's own laws. We had that in the 13-14C in Feudal England with Lords of the Manor and Tithes.

If you put the US tax code in paper form it would be a stack of papers 10 feet high, printed on both sides. Yes it is a bit ridiculous.

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Some wrongly like to assert that Taxes are Theft, even though Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution says Congress has the power to 'lay and collect taxes', some in this country want a free ride, even though they can pay their fair share of taxes.
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Message 1633316 - Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 1:04:07 UTC

I would never suggest that our taxes are theft, only that the tax code is much more complicated that it needs to be.

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Message 1633389 - Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 3:14:38 UTC - in response to Message 1633316.  

I would never suggest that our taxes are theft, only that the tax code is much more complicated that it needs to be.

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I know, but some ignorant and delusional people out there, actually have said that and I don't think yer the type.
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Message 1633496 - Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 10:17:09 UTC

Some people are trying to put in a voter referendum option here in Kentucky that would allow individual cities to create a temporary additional sales tax to fund certain agreed upon local civic projects.

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