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Paul Stanway Jr
07-12-2005, 08:56 PM
Internet taxes? It's just a matter of time
By Charles Cooper

When the Supreme Court in 1992 exempted out-of-state mail order retailers from collecting most sales taxes, the online world was still waiting to be invented.

In fact, the court's decision did not even mention the word "Internet." No mystery. At the time, Marc Andreessen was wolfing down cheeseburgers with his buddies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while other future cyberstars such as Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar were just ambitious nobodies.

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Bogie
07-12-2005, 09:07 PM
But we lucky soles, selling here in Canada, have GST ..... so any CDN sales are charged, regardless of province. Prov tax, though, depends on licenses held by the vendor.

But mail order has always been run the same way - why would the Internet be any different?