{"id":196874,"date":"2008-03-18T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/18\/california-mulls-tax-on-internet-sales\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T10:09:00","slug":"california-mulls-tax-on-internet-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/18\/california-mulls-tax-on-internet-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"California Mulls Tax on Internet Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks unlikely that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/California-Internet-sales-tax-bill-faces-long-odds\/2100-1027_3-6234520.html?tag=fd_nbs_ent&amp;tag=nl.e703\">tax on downloaded purchases will pass<\/a>, but as state revenues implode, we will see a lot more of this, along with aggressive pursuit of people who are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">already<\/span> evading sales tax through online sales.<\/p>\n<p>I expect 2009 to be a banner year for lawsuits filed against Amazon, eBay, etc. for customer purchase information, so that sales taxes due can be pursued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks unlikely that the tax on downloaded purchases will pass, but as state revenues implode, we will see a lot more of this, along with aggressive pursuit of people who are already evading sales tax through online sales. I expect 2009 to be a banner year for lawsuits filed against Amazon, eBay, etc. for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,997,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-internet","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}