Attempt to Tax Internet Commerce Actually An Effort to Destroy Small Competitors
July 9th, 2009
Catalog publishers and small Internet retailers have something in common in that we do not have to try to calculate and charge customers their local sales tax on interstate orders, if we have no physical presence in that state. All of the USA’s tens of thousands of communities have different sales tax systems, so hiring people to try to calculate it and pay each location would bankrupt most small Internet retailers.
Efforts to tax Internet retailers and customers in this way have been defeated multiple times, but once again at the request of the large chain stores, congress is considering a tax on them. Catalog publishers apparently have a better ability to lobby congress as they are being conveniently ignored in this effort.
The huge retailers claim “fairness” in their efforts to levy this unbearable tax upon small Internet retailers. In fact, we already have an unfair disadvantage as rising energy costs have caused UPS, etc. to substantially raise shipping fees beyond our ability to pass those costs to customers.
The big chain stores know the small Internet retailers are already at a disadvantage, and are using this effort in an attempt to kill us. Why? We provide better service, specialized products, better selection, and often lower prices. For example, where else but MadeinUSAForever.com can you get all these made in USA products? Certainly not at Wal-Mart, Target, etc. The big retailers cannot fight us in the light of day, so they are using this dark method to attack us.
Please take two minutes to contact your representative and say “No Internet Sales Tax”.
Link to Senate: http://www.senate.gov/
Link to House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/
THANK YOU!
Sincerely,
Todd Lipscomb
Founder of MadeinUSAForever.com (http://www.madeinusaforever.com/) your source for American-Made goods.
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