“Amazon Took Over Collecting Illegal Sales Tax for the States”

Secure the Republic

“If you are the elected officials in a town or city, DO NOT support any resolution supporting a federal internet sales tax (especially (coming from Municipal League)! If your area has passed such an oppressive resolution, please reconsider, and withdraw this life-altering, fascist legislation. Brutal taxation chaos is staring us straight in the face! If Arkansans think we have been taxed enough already, just wait until the Streamline Governing Board gets through with us! “

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Secure Arkansas mentioned in our last article that we would be writing an alert very soon about Amazon and their illegal collection of the UNconstitutional internet state sales tax, so here is a brief introduction followed by our thoughts and plenty of documentation (as always).

For years, internet shoppers have been able to make online purchases without paying sales tax — as long as the company from whom one was purchasing didn’t have a NEXUS (a physical presence) in that shopper’s state. Brick-and-mortar companies have fought this because they believed it gave internet companies an unfair advantage. However, it seems that because some states think they’re losing money since sales tax isn’t being collected, they have pushed harder for Congress to do something, and – in case you haven’t noticed – Amazon has actually started collecting sales tax on internet purchases here in Arkansas as of April 2017. They collect that sales tax VOLUNTARILY which is illegal and goes against the Supreme Court ruling in Quill v. North Dakota (read more about that below). And, if illegal sales tax collection isn’t enough… according to this Fortune magazine article, “A Missouri retail lobbyist speaking to Bloomberg BNA in January said that Main Street stores still wanted a national law standardizing sales tax policy for online sellers.” (Wait a minute… Whatever happened to states’ rights and state sovereignty???)

From where is the push coming for taxation — besides the states? Keep reading…