{"id":1169,"date":"2012-12-06T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:31:10","slug":"internet-sales-tax-bill-filed-in-florida-legislature-megalextoria-news-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/06\/internet-sales-tax-bill-filed-in-florida-legislature-megalextoria-news-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet sales tax bill filed in Florida legislature \u00bb Megalextoria: News and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<p>This may be the last holiday shopping season that online retailers aren\u2019t required to charge Florida shoppers state sales tax.<\/p>\n<p>A bill filed in Tallahassee would allow the state to begin collecting the 6-cent tax from online shops.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, online retailers without locations in Florida don\u2019t have to collect state sales tax. But that could soon change, with state Sen. Gwen Margolis bill filing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur whole revenue source is sales tax in the state of Florida,\u201d Margolis said in a phone interview Monday. \u201cThe state of Florida is losing jobs and money because people have been shopping online all year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s cut is 6 cents on the dollar. That means when online retailers don\u2019t collect the tax, they can offer their customers lower prices than their brick and mortar competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The disadvantage has caught the ire of the Florida Retail Federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s move on. Let\u2019s quit competing unfairly based on a tax. That\u2019s not what you do,\u201d said Rick McAllister, of the federation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth year the bill has been filed in Tallahassee, and sponsors believe its time has come. Support among lawmakers is growing, but concerns remain over whether or not collecting the money owed can be considered a tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Don Gaetz is against the bill, but says if it were to pass, he\u2019d like to see other taxes decreased to keep the collection revenue neutral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly, as one senator, would insist on some kind of tax reduction for the very people whose taxes would be increased,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear exactly how much money could be collected if the bill passes. Some economists put the annual figure in the $100 million to $1 billion range.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/Internet-sales-tax-bill-filed-in-Florida-legislature\/-\/475880\/17639762\/-\/4340mb\/-\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/Internet-sales-tax-bill-filed-in-Florida-legislature\/-\/475880\/17639762\/-\/4340mb\/-\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.news4jax. \u2026 \/4340mb\/-\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the last holiday shopping season that online retailers aren\u2019t required to charge Florida shoppers state sales tax. A bill filed in Tallahassee would allow the state to begin collecting the 6-cent tax from online shops. Currently, online retailers without locations in Florida don\u2019t have to collect state sales tax. But that could soon change, with state Sen. Gwen Margolis bill filing. \u201cOur whole revenue source is sales tax in the state of Florida,\u201d Margolis said in a phone interview Monday. \u201cThe state of Florida is losing jobs and money because people have been shopping online all year.\u201d The state\u2019s cut is 6 cents on the dollar. That means when online retailers don\u2019t collect the tax, they can offer their customers lower prices than their brick and mortar competitors. The disadvantage has caught the ire of the Florida Retail Federation. \u201cLet\u2019s move on. Let\u2019s quit competing unfairly based on a tax. That\u2019s not what you do,\u201d said Rick McAllister, of the federation. This is the sixth year the bill has been filed in Tallahassee, and sponsors believe its time has come. Support among lawmakers is growing, but concerns remain over whether or not collecting the money owed can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[907,909,1490,1701],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-internet","tag-internet-sales-tax","tag-sales-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}