{"id":391,"date":"2009-04-17T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T12:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:58:51","slug":"bohica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/04\/17\/bohica\/","title":{"rendered":"BOHICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re at it again. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The States<\/span> State tax authorities, faced with declining sales tax revenue, are about to take another stab at getting Congress to mandate tax collection for online shopping.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following this; I&#8217;ve got a stake in it because I sell stuff online. It shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise that I&#8217;m opposed to the idea. I collect &#8211; and pay the state Treasury &#8211; sales tax from customers here in New Jersey because my business presence is here. But I simply haven&#8217;t got the manpower to keep track of the nuances of 7,000-plus tax authorities in the US alone.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m not writing here to complain. What I&#8217;d like to do it point you toward a particularly coherent article on ZDNet:<\/p>\n<div><em>End of tax-free Internet shopping may be near<\/em><\/div>\n<div><del>http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-9595_22-289155.html<\/del><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re at it again. The States State tax authorities, faced with declining sales tax revenue, are about to take another stab at getting Congress to mandate tax collection for online shopping. I&#8217;ve been following this; I&#8217;ve got a stake in it because I sell stuff online. It shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise that I&#8217;m opposed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/04\/17\/bohica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOHICA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[28,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}