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Amazon going to tax NE residents.
Mntnman:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on December 26, 2016, 11:13:44 AM ---I forgot to mention that NE will be collecting past history from Amazon and other Internet sales outlets and matching up reported internet sales with actual Internet sales. If you haven't been reporting Internet sales taxes expect a letter from the Dept of Revenue sometime in the future. They'll probably offer an amnesty period. After that the penalties for under reporting will be significant. I wrote the code for comparing incomes reported on the fed form with that on NE's form. Several thousand cheaters were found and prosecuted.
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Hmmm..... Who's side are you on? :o
GreyGeek:
One the side of Law, order and ethics. How about you?
The largest difference between state and fed reported gross income was $100,000. It took me a couple hours to write and test the SQL scripts which did the comparison, so it wasn't a case of "thousands of dollars chasing hundreds of dollars", as someone with little knowledge of the subject implied.
The difference threshold could be any amount. My first run using $250 found over 10,000 thousand returns. Using $1,000 found over 1,000 returns, IIRC, and they were sent letters. Using $10,000 found over a hundred, which included the $100,000 cheater. No one makes an accidental $100,000 mistake.
Currently the NE tax collections are down $700 MILLION and the Dept is under staffed and over worked. They can't afford to pay new hires the current salary businesses pay so hiring quality programmers is hard. Keeping them is equally hard.
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JTH:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on December 26, 2016, 10:38:11 PM ---One the side of Law, order and ethics. How about you?
The largest difference between state and fed reported gross income was $100,000.
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What does that have to do with sales tax, I wonder?
--- Quote ---The difference threshold could be any amount. My first run using $250 found over 10,000 thousand returns. Using $1,000 found over 1,000 returns, IIRC, and they were sent letters. Using $10,000 found over a hundred, which included the $100,000 cheater. No one makes an accidental $100,000 mistake.
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So....what does this have to do with sales tax? People reporting different amounts of gross incomes on different tax forms is a completely different topic.
--- Quote ---Currently the NE tax collections are down $700 MILLION and the Dept is under staffed and over worked. They can't afford to pay new hires the current salary businesses pay so hiring quality programmers is hard. Keeping them is equally hard.
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Okay.
So...what does that have to do with sales tax?
And to reiterate my earlier question: What legal right gives Nebraska the ability to collect past history regarding sales from companies not in this state?
Les:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on December 26, 2016, 10:38:11 PM ---One the side of Law, order and ethics. How about you?
The largest difference between state and fed reported gross income was $100,000. It took me a couple hours to write and test the SQL scripts which did the comparison, so it wasn't a case of "thousands of dollars chasing hundreds of dollars", as someone with little knowledge of the subject implied.
The difference threshold could be any amount. My first run using $250 found over 10,000 thousand returns. Using $1,000 found over 1,000 returns, IIRC, and they were sent letters. Using $10,000 found over a hundred, which included the $100,000 cheater. No one makes an accidental $100,000 mistake.
Currently the NE tax collections are down $700 MILLION and the Dept is under staffed and over worked. They can't afford to pay new hires the current salary businesses pay so hiring quality programmers is hard. Keeping them is equally hard.
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No offense to your situation but what I was implying was government entities aren't typically ran efficiently. And as a business owner I have had experience dealing with the Department of Revenue and had a friend that was a programmer at the Department of banking.
RobertH:
so.... taxation isn't theft?
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