Wisconsin loses 150 million dollars each year in unpaid sales taxes for sales on internet and mail order products. The tax is charged, but the collection of it is the problem.
A compact of states have devised a way to collect it, but the Wisconsin Republican legislature has blocked participation in the project. The Wisconsin State Journal, in an excellent article, has called for Wisconsin to begin to collect the tax as a simple matter of fairness to brick and morter businesses. A way to level the playing field.
Click on the post to read the article. What do you think? Should these sales taxes be collected as a simple matter of business fairness? You make the call.
Monday, August 01, 2005
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It would be nice if we knew who was paying the taxes they collect and who is not. I know I purchase off the internet quite often and pay taxes on it, if I pay they had better be paying it to our state. It seems like that would be fraud, to collect under the pretense of taxes, and then not pay them.
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