Barbour backs plan to tax online, catalog sales
by Associated Press
Published: December 5,2011
Tags: Gov. Haley Barbour, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, online sales tax
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is now backing a congressional proposal to allow states to directly collect sales taxes from Internet and catalog merchants.
Barbour expressed support in a letter last week.
One estimate shows that Mississippi and its local governments will lose more than $300 million in 2012 because such retailers do not collect the state’s 7 percent sales tax. Consumers are supposed to pay use taxes on their state income tax returns, but few do.
The federal bill sets conditions for states to collect the taxes, including providing software and services to Internet and catalog retailers. It could also require Mississippi to direct local sales tax revenue to the place where merchandise or services are delivered. Now, law credits the tax to the place where a business is based.
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December 5th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
What’s this?? Pudge, our “I ain’t raisin’ nobody’s taxes!” wants to raise our taxes by penalizing our on-line shopping? He’ll have to turn in his Retardican membership card or something. Imagine: Pudge raising somebody’s taxes. He probably thinks Amazon will have to pony up the money, not realizing that the tax will simply be passed on to the Mississippi consumers. Wow. Raising taxes . . . .
December 5th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
What ARP said ^^