Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!athertn!jimb 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 Lines: 30 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... -- ****** Views expressed herin are my own ******* Jim Burke - consultant 408) 734-9822 | I'll stop posting when they pry my jimb@Atherton.COM | cold, dead fingers from the smoking {decwrl,sun,hpda,pyramid}!athertn!jimb | keyboard.