Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnews!res
From: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
Message-ID: <9056@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:08:24 GMT
References: <2495@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2495@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> wolfordj@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (j.w.wolford) writes:
>Our Gov. just signed into law that all mail order places must withhold
>the 6 1/4% IL state tax. (Starts Jan 1, 90)

Fine.  Could someone explain to me what powers of enforcement the great
state of Illinois has over a business which has no assets or other dealings
within that state?  What would be the likely recourse if the law were simply
ignored by the outside mail order firm?  It would seem to me that if the state
wants to tax mail orders, then its only recourse would be to put the burden
for payment on its citizens, not the outside vendor.

Rob Stampfli
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