Expect within the next 5 years that EVERY online purchase will be taxed.
We’re basically already there. I’m pretty sure every state but Florida and Missouri have passed economic nexus laws.
Expect within the next 5 years that EVERY online purchase will be taxed.
Probably, like everything else, there's an address based app a business can incorporate into their computer system that checks who they have to collect tax for, and the rate.
I sometimes have problems because the USPS lumps all zip codes surrounding the large city I live near into that city for the town in the address. This causes problems because that city has certain local gun and ammo laws that my town does not.
Buying on line, the vendors app will occasional void the transaction because it looks like I live in that city. So I have to call and convince the vendor I don't actually live there.
Not exactly. That's why we are where we are today.In the 1980s and '90s, I know that after the ATF audited several shops, they (the ATF) would "suggested" the state audit their books for sales tax, which led to the loss of their state sales licenses and consequently their FFLs. Don't know how the ATF regulations read today, but back then it was clear that the buyer had to pay sales tax to someone.
Not since 2003. ATF's tax collection role was moved to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, (TTB) which is in the Treasury Dept. ATF is part of Homeland Security. They don't even touch the $200 for NFA tax stamps, that payment is separated before ATF ever gets the NFA forms.The ATF was and remains, at least in part, a tax collection agency.
Technically, if you drive out of state to make a purchase you are still supposed to pay use tax....
Not true.If you think about taxes (on any item such as firearms); every time a dollar moves, it gets taxed. So if you follow that dollar thru the economy and extrapolate the lifespan of that dollar’s travel, eventually the government gets the entire dollar.