The Consumerist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Radio Shack is charging New York City consumers an extra half-percent of sales tax, even though the State hasn't approved a new tax rate. Before descending into a chaotic mess of embarrassing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
i4U (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Internet is an invention constantly in flux. We need to be careful to not get too used to it as it is now, because it's not going to last that way very long. Right now we live in an age where online retailers can get away without most of their sales be...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 28 minutes ago
Online affiliate marketing used to be a lot easier, Google Adwords had their shot - limiting affiliate listings - and now a growing number of states in the US are implementing taxation policies that are driving out many major vendors that use affiliate marketing. The policy started last year, most notably in New York, and as Kevin Lee points out has implications way beyond just the obvious affiliates....
Buckeye State Blog - Comments (Free subscription) | yesterday
After all our neighbors to the west, Indiana have a sales tax of 7%. Lots of states have bigger sales taxes, beacause WOW their politicians realize that it is worse to cut essential services.
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: State budgets are a shambles. Sales taxes, corporate taxes, personal income taxes and other taxes are being raised all over the country. The budget problems and consequential taxes will impact municipal bond rates and default risk, and after-tax investment returns on many forms of investment. California Muni Money Funds: Complete Story »
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the former Great Valley Chrysler Jeep Mazda Isuzu dealership on Fulton Avenue in Sacramento, weeds that sprout from abandoned ground and abandoned buildings give the appearance of a no-man's land. More than a dozen former car sales sites throughout the capital area sit vacant, vexing officials who seek new uses. Abandoned buildings that once housed bustling auto dealerships dot the Sacramento area,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Consumers in Massachusetts will soon be paying a higher sales tax, in large part to avoid a $100 million toll hike on the Massachusetts Turnpike. So you would think it would be fairly easy to get some details on how the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority intends to spend all that money, along with the rest of its $430 million budget, gathered ...
Buckeye State Blog - Comments (Free subscription) | yesterday
I do credit Ted with the "stupid tax" of slots. That's $933 million. Then we stop the income tax phase out thing. thats another 900 million. That is around 1.8 billion. To make up the rest we have a .5% sales tax. That is 1.2 billion. To make up the final 200 million, tack on a small tax on a variety of "sin" items such as booz and smokes. I'd rather pay an extra $2.50 (for $ 500...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
THANJAVUR: The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Employees Association, Kumbakonam, has appealed to central Government to give excise relief to diesel used by transport corporations. The State Government should give sales tax ...
SERIOUS HOME BASED BUSINESS (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Planning to work from home? Here's how to find your wayNational PostRunning a home-based business allows you to set off a number of expenses. The Canada Revenue Agency and your provincial retail sales tax office will be able … and more »
Universal Financial Plus (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
By Steve Ashford Budgets are designed to live with one's means and to set aside money for future needs. Sound judgment shopping for bargains and good prices is an important step. When cost comparing, one needs to beware of veiled expenses such as travel time and costs, sales taxes, or if online, shipping charges. Constructing an Excel spreadsheet allows one to get an overview of their budget quickly....
The Blade (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Death and taxes. Two things none of us can avoid. But some online retailers are trying to avoid collecting sales tax in states that have enacted or are about to enact laws requiring that taxes be collected. In response some online retailers like Overstock, eBay and others are dropping their affiliate programs in states that [...]
Buckeye State Blog - Comments (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
And i would be willing to do it to save our libraries. I guess I can't complain that a scholarship that was guaranteed if I stayed in good academic standing in an Ohio college just vanish. I guess that the high school I went to which will not exist in three or four years without new revenue because the "relevant parties" didn't support it. Ted ran on the "Turn Around Ohio" pledge....
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
By Neil Downing The Rhode Island Division of Taxation has sent notices to more than 100 online retailers, letting them know about the state's new law that could require them to collect Rhode Island's 7-percent sales tax, state Tax Administrator David M. Sullivan said Friday. It is the latest development in a simmering controversy involving a new state law -- sometimes called the "Amazon law"...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Sixteen months before Election Day, the die has been cast on Deval Patrick's re-election campaign.
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