bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Rent a place to live in Washington State next to the Oregon border. No income tax in WA, no sales tax in Oregon and no property tax on a renter.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I'm sure someone will come up with a computerized database service of state and local taxes for merchants, which will be cheaper than having each company's accountant do it by hand.

Bill_de Loc: US

I believe the ruling gives states the right to collect. I'm not sure (Haven't seen the whole thing) if the retailer has to collect the tax, or just notify the states. Amazon is already collecting taxes in a multitude of states. It's all done by computer.

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Pegasus Loc: Texas Gulf Coast

That sort of software has been around for a long time. One that I have had to deal with at a customer site is called Taxware.

It's been several years now since that that project ended but I do remember that if the company had a nexus (presence) in a specific state, it would collect the taxes for that location using Taxware to calculate what it would be. There are State, County, Municipalities and other taxing authorities involved. At the time, there were something like 9,000 taxing authorities around the country. The rates could also vary depending on the classification of the goods & services sold. It was geared on where the goods were shipped to (shipping address Vs. billing address.)

A lot of the big e-tailers already have nexuses (nexi?) in multiple states; Amazon has many shipping centers around the country and they have to charge sales tax already, so this will be nothing new for many people. Places like B&H that have a single location will be impacted, but then again, collecting is the issue here. I would suspect the big firms will collect and forward, smaller sites maybe more reticent to do so.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

If you can only get 86/7% agreement out of a group with vested interest, that casts lots of doubt.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Phone it in then???
Paper mail should still be tax exempt, unless that changed also.
Need to see the new rules when they are published.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

(I would imagine that the property taxes are included in the rental price.)

Photocraig

I've been out of the business mix for 2 decades now. But when I was with international Computer manufacturers, you KNOW, those locals wanted their vigorish (sales tax) on those multi Million Dollar systems. Even in the last century, we had computerized systems to calculate the taxes and accrue our monthly disbursements to those Global authorities. But it's as good as any excuse to raise prices---ooops my old thought process just reappeared and, I hope, disappears quickly.

Note: The recent move of an Apple Processing Center to Reno, NV was accompanied by an additional facility, a "Receiving Center," for Equipment, as in LARGE computer equipment, in a "Special Entrepreneurial District" that among other virtues, included a Sales tax exemption of equipment received there. The equipment will be re-distributed to the real Data Center near the Tesla Plant East of Reno in another County. While we complain about Sales Tax on our Photo equipment, there is no comparison to the five and six digit dollars of sales tax paid on major Industrial Equipment and Systems.

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tripsy76 Loc: Northshore, MA

Yikes! That is a rough one! Not that MA property taxes are that great. But you got me beat!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

That's one of the reasons I just bought a house in Delaware. No sales tax, regular gas is $2.47/gal, no tax on retirement income, and my property taxes in Millsboro are only $1000/yr. I pay more than 12x that in Yonkers, where I am currently living.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

They get us on other taxes.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

As a property owner and real estate developer, I can tell you that property taxes are always figured into the rents. If they go up, you can do one of two things, raise rents or cut other expenses- generally maintenance or amenities. And yes, even we non-profits pay property taxes on rental properties.

Andy

TSGallantPhotography Loc: SW Florida

I guess the old adage "All good things must come to an end"...

akamerica

Taxes are one of the reasons Florida is Red and growing. No state income tax. If you live here more than 1/2 a year your property taxes may increase on your primary residence not more than 3% a year even if the fair market value increases say 10%. If the market assessed value declines by say 10% your taxes are calculated off the lower value, and in subsequent years may only increase from that lower value a max of 3%. Sales tax is 6%. As a veteran I get deductions from the fair market value. Widow widower deduction. And Florida has billion dollar surpluses - a rainy day savings account.

Wakko12 Loc: New Hampshire

NH people always complain about taxes, yet we have the second lowest overall tax burden while looking at all taxes. Also the second lowest education funding (that’s why lots of us don’t understand how it all works).