SCOTUS Sales Tax Ruling Makes it Hard to Buy Parts Overseas

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Rick C

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With the new Supreme Court ruling even Alibaba is collecting sales tax. I'm trying to talk to them about a sales tax exemption form and they seem to have no means of dealing with that.

It seems that while they are required to collect the tax as a "facilitator", they have no means of accepting a sales tax exemption form and not charging the tax when the goods bought are for production of products for resale.

Too bad the Supreme Court didn't include that in their decision.

To be honest, I'm not sure why a business in a foreign country is obligated to collect a US state sales tax. It is one thing to require a company in another state to do so, but what leverage do they have over foreign companies???

As part of this I found that Aliexpress is not for selling around the world exactly, just anywhere outside of China! Go figure!!!

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Rick C wrote...
With the new Supreme Court ruling even Alibaba is collecting
sales tax. I'm trying to talk to them about a sales tax
exemption form and they seem to have no means of dealing
with that.
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Have you seen this on your AliExpress payments? The Trump
Chinese tariffs seem hidden from view, unless I specify DHL
shipping, and it's transparently added to the shipping bill.
But they do show explicitly on my Digi-Key shipments.

Harvard is always insisting that I avoid paying a sales tax,
but WTF, we benefit greatly from the state's activities on
our behalf, why not help out a little bit? Sheesh!


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- Win
 
On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 5:38:35 PM UTC-4, Winfield Hill wrote:
Rick C wrote...

With the new Supreme Court ruling even Alibaba is collecting
sales tax. I'm trying to talk to them about a sales tax
exemption form and they seem to have no means of dealing
with that.

Have you seen this on your AliExpress payments? The Trump
Chinese tariffs seem hidden from view, unless I specify DHL
shipping, and it's transparently added to the shipping bill.
But they do show explicitly on my Digi-Key shipments.

Harvard is always insisting that I avoid paying a sales tax,
but WTF, we benefit greatly from the state's activities on
our behalf, why not help out a little bit? Sheesh!
Click to expand...

That is definitely circular reasoning.

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Rick C.

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On 10/14/19 4:36 AM, Rick C wrote:
On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 5:38:35 PM UTC-4, Winfield Hill wrote:
Rick C wrote...

With the new Supreme Court ruling even Alibaba is collecting
sales tax. I'm trying to talk to them about a sales tax
exemption form and they seem to have no means of dealing
with that.

Have you seen this on your AliExpress payments? The Trump
Chinese tariffs seem hidden from view, unless I specify DHL
shipping, and it's transparently added to the shipping bill.
But they do show explicitly on my Digi-Key shipments.

Harvard is always insisting that I avoid paying a sales tax,
but WTF, we benefit greatly from the state's activities on
our behalf, why not help out a little bit? Sheesh!

That is definitely circular reasoning.
Click to expand...

In the early 70s young Harvard men were known to attend a speech by the
female president of Radcliffe, not because they were particularly
interested in what she had to say but they'd never heard a woman talk
before and were unsure if females had that capability from a biological
perspective.
 
On 10/13/19 5:38 PM, Winfield Hill wrote:
Rick C wrote...

With the new Supreme Court ruling even Alibaba is collecting
sales tax. I'm trying to talk to them about a sales tax
exemption form and they seem to have no means of dealing
with that.

Have you seen this on your AliExpress payments? The Trump
Chinese tariffs seem hidden from view, unless I specify DHL
shipping, and it's transparently added to the shipping bill.
But they do show explicitly on my Digi-Key shipments.

Harvard is always insisting that I avoid paying a sales tax,
but WTF, we benefit greatly from the state's activities on
our behalf, why not help out a little bit? Sheesh!
Click to expand...

Harvard U, that well-known bastion of progressive politics, lol. I hear
they did eventually become fully co-educational around 1999 after 84 years
 
bitrex wrote...
In the early 70s young Harvard men were known to attend a speech
by the female president of Radcliffe, not because they were
particularly interested in what she had to say but they'd never
heard a woman talk before and were unsure if females had that
capability from a biological perspective.
Click to expand...

I think that story is a bunch of bullshit. I was at Harvard
from 1965 until 1972, 65 hours a week, and didn't witness any
such thing. We had lots of female students and scientists
around, including one PhD in our group. She was rather
attractive, but a few years older than me, and married.


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Thanks,
- Win
 
On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 5:55:17 PM UTC-4, Winfield Hill wrote:
bitrex wrote...

In the early 70s young Harvard men were known to attend a speech
by the female president of Radcliffe, not because they were
particularly interested in what she had to say but they'd never
heard a woman talk before and were unsure if females had that
capability from a biological perspective.

I think that story is a bunch of bullshit.
Click to expand...

Duh!?

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Rick C.

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-- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
 
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