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It seems you do Amazon and other Internet merchants do not collect large Illinois sales tax 6.25 percent on the products they sell here. By law, people must make their purchases on the Web at State are back, but the application is not practical.
Now, the General Assembly has called Amazon tax, including Governor Pat Quinn expects Signature approved. This law has nothing to do with the scandalous Quinn income tax hike in force.
Rather it is a reasonable measure for what we hope to find a fair solution: This should ideally by a federal law that provides a solid legal basis and allows different tax codes are closed. But several bills have gone nowhere on Capitol Hill over the years, leaving the cash-strapped states with less to do themselves.
The new law, however, would boost Illinois into an unresolved question: Under the clause on trade in the U.S. Constitution, it is not clear who can play as Amazon or others outside the state e-tailers forced tax collectors, as government officials do.
Even businesses that pay tax on the gain on the internet already, if they have a physical presence in the state. Covers the brick and mortar retailers such as Borders or Barnes & Noble. New York and some other states have similar rules for Seattle, Amazon and other online retailers, saying that their relations imposed by the amount of affiliate marketing for a local presence in the state. The Illinois law follows this approach.
Amazon has promised to fight against these measures, partly by reducing its subsidiaries as a percentage of sales they send to collect the merchants. At least one, CouponCabin.com threatened to Illinois when leaving Quinn to sign the bill.
Quinn must be signed anyway. This is encouraging, California and other states on the fence, followed by similar legislation, which in turn force online retailers to reconsider their threats of scorched earth. The pressure is the federal solution, we need to collect.
Nobody likes the idea here of a new business tax. On the surface, it sends the wrong message, especially from a regime with such a terrible record thwart job creation.
But many Illinois businesses, including Illinois Retail Merchants Association, this legislation simply fairness. You are right. Amazon and its members to earn hundreds of millions of revenue from Illinois residents. Why e-merchants get a better price than competing stores are forced by law to collect sales tax? If a customer decides to buy a book that should determine the uneven tax policy does not know who makes the sale.
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