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which make me wonder what incentives Google is offering to software authors that this is now happening.It makes me wonder whether Google tolerates this behavior - that'd be piss-poor of them, and be a pretty damn clear violation of "do no evil".-40hz (February 08, 2013, 06:07 AM)-f0dder (February 08, 2013, 09:16 AM)
So the current state of affairs with online retailers not charging sales tax is a temporary one at best. And it will be a quick tech fix on most order entry servers once they're required to collect it. So it's not as if it impractical or not doable from an order processing perspective. It's just a sku + zipcode + tax table lookup + calculation loop on their system. No big huhu. This stuff is old hat - and the code has already been written anyway. The computer handles the heavy lifting so it's really just a "set & maintain a tax database" thing.
About the only tricky part will be if somebody in state A buys something - but has it shipped to an address in state B. In most places that wouldn't be taxable under current 'destination-based' sales tax laws. In my state something purchased with the intent of shipping it out of state within 30 days, and actually shipped within that grace period, is usually exempt since we're a destination-based state for sales tax purposes.-40hz (February 06, 2013, 12:54 PM)
I am also wondering what incentives from the state Amazon had been offered (or suggested) in exchange for their coming to CT? Because I'm positive CT didn't approach them first.
Which makes me wonder if this is an emerging business strategy for Amazon and other big web retailers?
Consider: Amazon is in an ideal position to cut such deals. They can easily approach a state and tell them exactly how much sales tax revenue they're currently losing.-40hz (February 06, 2013, 08:30 AM)
Amendment Language:
2. That the provisions of this act shall be effective on the sooner of September 1, 2013, or the effective date of federal legislation authorizing states to require a seller to collect taxes on sales of goods to in-state purchasers without regard to the location of the seller. If however, that federal law is enacted prior to August 15, 2013, and the effective date of that legislation is on or prior to January 1, 2014, the provisions of this act shall be effective January 1, 2014.
I think I am going to go with wordpress, because I already know how to use it, so I won't have to learn anything new, which will make things so much easier when I go to explain to the shop owner how to use it. Each card will be a blog post. And each blog post will have a category tied to it. (creature, enchantment, artifact, etc.) And then to further make it easier to search for a card, each blog post will also have tags tied to it. (eg. a green elf shaman would have the tags: green,forest,elf,shaman) then to make it look less like a wordpress blog, and more like a card database website, I disabled the pages tab at the top of the theme (there is only one page anyways, the news/anouncments page), and then added to the sidebar the categories widget, and named it card database, so that people can get a list of cards based on card type. (creature, enchantment, etc.)-nite_monkey (February 05, 2013, 11:53 AM)
I'd guess that within a few years, that will be the case with all states that have sales taxes, as it should be.-xtabber (February 05, 2013, 08:51 AM)
)The only complaint I might have is that they can be slightly hot when you use them for extended periods of time.-Jibz (January 31, 2013, 01:44 PM)
I was glad to see there is something like libgit2-Jibz (January 31, 2013, 01:15 AM)
Ooo, how nice. Thanks for the link-ewemoa (January 31, 2013, 07:16 AM)