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Old 08-10-2011, 12:19 PM   #26
RDaneel54
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Speaking as an outsider, it seems very odd to me that an Internet purchase should be exempt from sales tax. Given the apparently wide-spread practice of tax-evasion relating to non-payment of use tax, perhaps the simple answer is to legislate that all on-line purchases should be taxed at source by the retailer?
I'm not sure if every state has a use tax for internet purchases. Also, the federal government mandating the collection of individual state taxes crosses a line I'd rather not see happen.
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