{"id":1202,"date":"2014-02-21T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T03:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2014-02-21T03:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T03:35:17","slug":"e-commerce-taxing-dilemma-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/e-commerce-taxing-dilemma-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"E COMMERCE &#8211; TAXING DILEMMA &#8211; part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet tax issue gained national attention in the late 1990s.\u00a0 State governors wanted the sales tax revenue, but Internet proponents said the Internet was still in its infancy and collecting taxes could have serious consequences for future growth.\u00a0 Also concerns about taxing Internet access and usage.\u00a0 By 11\/1\/2014 Congress has sent up the use of taxes for merchandise purchased on line, but so far no one has totally figured out how to do it.\u00a0 Assuming the average sales tax is 5% ( 6.25% in TX), the states are loosing $11 billion in sales taxes not collected in 2013.\u00a0 MORE TO COME.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet tax issue gained national attention in the late 1990s.\u00a0 State governors wanted the sales tax revenue, but Internet proponents said the Internet was still in its infancy and collecting taxes could have serious consequences for future growth.\u00a0 Also concerns about taxing Internet access and usage.\u00a0 By 11\/1\/2014 Congress has sent up the use [&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\/1202"}],"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=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}