States look to impose taxes on internet retailers to close budget gaps...
Question patriots, do you agree that the states should impose sales tax on internet businesses? Do you have an internet business that would be affected by a decision by the states to collect? How would this affect you? Darla
States Look to Enforce Internet Taxes to Close Budget Gaps
Published June 19, 2011
| Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas – State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks, and reducing health care services, but there is one place they could get $23 billion if they could only agree how to do it: Internet retailers such as Amazon.com.
That's enough to pay for the salaries of more than 46,000 teachers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In California, the amount of uncollected taxes from Amazon sales alone is roughly the same amount cut from child welfare services in the current state budget.
But collecting those taxes from major online retailers is difficult.
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