There's no need to bleed funds from the taxpayers when you properly manage the funds they already gave you through the other taxes paid. I'm with Roques, against the tax and surprised it wasn't required sooner.
You are right. Why are these states governments bleeding the people instead of managing their funds well. Large governments and poor leadership is part of the problem.
The rationale behind Taxing E-Commerce is simple-State and Local govts all across America are broke and will do whatever it takes to raise revenue.Including new moves to tax bloggers in broke cities like Philly;this move will put a death knell to the one growth industry America has today-The Internet.
We need less Taxes and less regulation.
Unfortunately,if that happens who is going to pay the heavily bloated salaries of Public Servants???
So well less Taxes adn Less regulation is little but wishful thinking at this stage.
This is another case of government's blind stabs at generating revenue and lack of creativity in doing so. The solutions they come up with always lies in taxation. What they do not realize is that in taking the $$ from the entrepreneurs and REAL creative people, that in turn will limit their ability to do more things down the road, which will lead to less revenues generated as a whole for the economic ecosystem.
If anything, they should be providing tax breaks or incentives to push more businesses to do business online as it limits alot of waste that occurs as a result of the old style brick & mortar shops.
It is totally insane to tax the electronic commerce ..... The products have already taxes depending on the country. For example, Hungary has 25% tax, Greece 23% tax, etc.
Double taxing is unfair and will totally hurt the on line shops and of course this move, hides something behind.
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Thailand Stages a Comeback Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
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