Budget request includes streamlined sales tax
MADISON, Wis. (AP) State revenue officials propose rewriting sales tax rules to generate an additional $46.5 million over the next two years.
The Department of Revenue's budget request submitted to Gov. Jim Doyle includes another attempt to enact the so-called "streamlined sales tax."
Revenue administrators say it would level the playing field between Wisconsin retailers that have to collect a sales tax and out-of-state Internet and mail order catalog businesses that don't have to collect the tax if they don't have a connection to the state.
Doyle has supported the streamlined sales tax in the past and will decide whether to include it in his own budget request to the Legislature in February.
Sep 17, 2008 at 11:46 a.m.
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Under federal law all states may now collect a sales tax on internet purchases. The era of letting internet compete against brick-and-mortar without equal taxation is over. The major problem is enforcement. (There is already space on the tax forms for voluntary reporting of such purchases and voluntary payment of the sales tax.)
Sep 17, 2008 at 11:13 a.m.
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Perhaps our creative financial genius of a Governor should expand his definition of streamlining to include out-of-state businesses such as gas stations, resorts, motels and amusement parks being required to collect sales taxes from Wisconsin residents. He could even propose a law that would require international businesses to do the same. Maybe he can force your grandma in Florida to pony up the sales tax for that aftershave she’ll send you for Christmas. There is just no end to the creativity of the man in his quest to separate us of what he perceives to be our excess wealth.
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