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From: jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
Message-ID: <11779@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 89 15:59:37 GMT
References: <2495@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <9056@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jimb@athertn.UUCP (Jim Burke)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <9056@cbnews.ATT.COM> res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>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.

This is already the law in the state of California.  If you buy 
so much as a pack of chewing gum for someone out of state,
you owe the state some sales tax.  Of course, the state
has absolutely no way of enforcing such a law and they are
mostly concerned about large ticket items being brought in
like automobiles.  Many areas of CA have a 7% sales tax, so
buying a car out of state in a place where they have a low
or no sales tax would be very beneficial.  That is true of
any other big ticket item like a PC, but of course you don't
have to register your PC with the state (yet, anyway) so you
can save up to 7% just by buying mail order from out of state...


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