Comments on: Senate Looking At Taxing Online Sales In Florida

By: Ed Burie

Ed Burie — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:46:35 +0000

Why do state officials in FL think they have juristiction of companies not located here? I”m located in FL and I sell stuff online. If I ship in FL, I collect sales tax. If California tried telling me I had to collect sales tax for THEM, I’d either ignore them or stop shipping to CA. As soon as I do anything over state lines, its now federal, not state control. So lets say 50 different states pass the same law…like I’m really going to keep track of 50 different states sales tax rate, collect it different for every state, and file 50 different sales tax returns every month? I think not!

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:47:59 +0000

If you don’t agree with this bill, email your representative/senators. Let them know how you feel or just sit back and accept whatever they do.

By: Joe Bagofdoughnuts

Joe Bagofdoughnuts — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:17:35 +0000

If I spend my money out of state, it is none of Florida’s business.

I can drive to Alabama, buy a Flat screen TV and not have to stop at the state line to pay taxes.

How is Amazon, Overstocked, HSN or the like any different?

That certainly is not Florida commerce, why does the state think I OWE THEM MONEY?

In the end, this is just another money grab by the state!

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:26:04 +0000

It becomes more and more that the politicians are educated well passed their intelligence. Get a clue before you screw up again!

By: no more

no more — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:41:52 +0000

No more tax. No more tax. We pay way too much now.

By: Fairlane63

Fairlane63 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:24:28 +0000

The state legislature wants to raise taxes? Shocking…

By: Southerner

Southerner — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:49:14 +0000

No More Taxes.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:26:05 +0000

Gee, just what we need…more taxes. All this will do is drive businesses out of Florida to a state where they don’t collect taxes. I agree with Henry Coe.

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:31:49 +0000

It makes no sense or cents to offsetting taxes that are due by reducing other taxes, especially while basing this revenue on speculation of future revenue that is likely to be untraceable or unenforceable without a huge lack of privacy online and more government intrusions in to what everyone does on their PC.
I think what this bill will ultimately do is convince Florida online purchases to be made outside of Florida, hurting Florida businesses while having a loss of revenue for the state from the offset.
In my opinion, this is a great example of Republicans saying government is the problem and then getting elected to make government not function while spending government dollars and creating more deficit.
This revenue loss, IMO, will lead to more cuts in places where we cant afford any more budget cuts while hurting Florida small businesses.