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Originally Posted by pwalker8
What's reasonable about expecting someone from another country to be an unpaid tax collector for you? What's reasonable about expecting an online seller to stay up to date and support the tax laws all over the world?
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If you, as a retailer, choose to do business with a particular country, you have an obligation to follow the laws of that country. If you don't wish to abide by those laws, don't do business there. Nobody's forcing any company to do so.
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Here in the US, online sellers are only required to collect taxes if they have a physical presence in the state where the buyer lives.
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I'm aware of that, and the result is massive tax fraud, as people ignore their legal duty to pay "use tax" when they buy out-of-state. You're surely not holding that up as an example of a good taxation system, are you?