# Spitzer Wants to Tax Online Sales That Occur Out of State **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 12, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367 "2008-02-12T20:50:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/1 "2008-02-12T20:50:46Z")
“ **ALBANY, N.Y. —** [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) is fighting Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to require online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York, whether the companies are in New York or not. Several other money-strapped states have mulled going after the taxes. Spitzer’s proposed budget would require Internet giants like Amazon to collect tax on an estimated $47 million in sales to New Yorkers, who are currently required by an honor system to report how much they spend online on their tax returns…” [http://www.wral.com/news/technology/story/2427079/](http://www.wral.com/news/technology/story/2427079/) ---
**Author:** ![Sc1chik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sc1chik/32/7243_2.png) [@Sc1chik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sc1chik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/2 "2008-02-12T20:57:30Z")
[http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45191&highlight=spitzer](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45191&highlight=spitzer) ---
**Author:** ![Carnut](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/carnut/32/7590_2.png) [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/3 "2008-02-12T20:58:56Z")
fuck him ---
**Author:** ![Violator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/violator/32/7278_2.png) [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/4 "2008-02-12T21:07:57Z")
> [@Carnut](#): > > fuck him X2 - this will just give people more reason to dislike NY ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/5 "2008-02-12T21:18:07Z")
this guy has monster balls suggesting stuff like this and the immigration stuff he suggested before. and that paying people to do shit they should do anyways… or was that bloomberg? iono, i catch 103.3 every now and again ---
**Author:** ![RyanA96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@RyanA96](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RyanA96)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/6 "2008-02-12T23:07:35Z")
another stupid thing about tax in NY!!! No Way!!! lol ---
**Author:** ![bpipe95](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bpipe95/32/7294_2.png) [@bpipe95](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bpipe95)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/7 "2008-02-12T23:31:56Z")
realize it for what it is, Democrats always want to “redistribute the wealth”. ---
**Author:** ![POOPRA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/poopra/32/7188_2.png) [@POOPRA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/POOPRA)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/8 "2008-02-13T04:12:44Z")
Yeah that sucks, but would make me buy locally more often if I had to deal with tax. ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/9 "2008-02-13T04:31:25Z")
well your supposed to claim your online/out of state purchases on your income taxes as it is. IDK how many people do this, i do cuz i dont feel like getting nailed by the IRS ---
**Author:** ![Viper966](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/viper966/32/7268_2.png) [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/10 "2008-02-13T06:50:42Z")
> [@Oroc](#): > > well your supposed to claim your online/out of state purchases on your income taxes as it is. IDK how many people do this, i do cuz i dont feel like getting nailed by the IRS do you claim everything down to the penny? My CPA said that the IRS has no way of tracking that without a FULL aggressive audit. and he said that would be brought on by something OTHER then lying about the internet tax, so you would have bigger things to worry about at that point ---
**Author:** ![jrod0187](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jrod0187](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jrod0187)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spitzer-wants-to-tax-online-sales-that-occur-out-of-state/43367/11 "2008-02-13T08:35:05Z")
I really hate this asshole.