{"id":1198,"date":"2014-02-19T01:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2014-02-19T01:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T01:53:41","slug":"e-commerce-a-taxing-dilemma-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/19\/e-commerce-a-taxing-dilemma-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"E-COMMERCE &#8211; A TAXING DILEMMA &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet &#8220;stores&#8221; have been allowed to sell products without collecting sales.\u00a0 Sounds like a bargain for shoppers, and it is.\u00a0 Meanwhile, brick-and-mortar stores are required to collect sales tax from their customers.\u00a0 When local stores lose market share, 2 negative things happen to the state and local communities.\u00a0 First, as sales tax collections fall, lost revenue must be made up through higher property taxes or user fees.\u00a0 Second, as the value of shopping malls and retail centers fall, property tax revenue also declines.\u00a0 Consequently, the state of Texas and its cities must look for alternative revenue to make up for the loss of retail market share to the Internet, according to Dr. Mark G. Dotzour, TX A&amp;M Real Estate Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet &#8220;stores&#8221; have been allowed to sell products without collecting sales.\u00a0 Sounds like a bargain for shoppers, and it is.\u00a0 Meanwhile, brick-and-mortar stores are required to collect sales tax from their customers.\u00a0 When local stores lose market share, 2 negative things happen to the state and local communities.\u00a0 First, as sales tax collections fall, lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}