Amazon purchase report for tax purposes

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So I finally got around to doing my taxes and my state asks how much I spent on out of state (non-taxed) items. I have no idea but I email Amazon and they showed me how to get to the reports section. I got the report in Excel and deleted all the taxed items and totalled the purchase. Easy to do and to keep in my records.

I suspect that anyone who claims zero online purchases in this day and age is not electronically filing their tax forms.
 
Hmmm... I don't supply that to my CPA and he's never asked. Is this something new?
 
Gott sei Dank bin ich ein Texan.

Note he said "State". I'm inferring this was for his Alabama Income Tax filing.
 
Yes Alabama but I'm sure coming to a state near you. (That is if you have an income tax.)
 
Ah, yes, I missed that. The states have been trying to get this nexus thing going since the mid-80s. Don't want to miss out on any of that revenue!
 
Taxes should have been collected from day one on online purchases. It was originally exempted because it was deemed too difficult to calculate. Bah.
 
The states with sales taxes want their cut on anything you buy out of state. The online merchants don't want the hassle of dealing with sales taxes of all the states and the municipalities in some states that have their own taxes added on.

I think my last year's out of state purchase was $8.00. I think the state will survive without my 64 cents.
 
Gerhardt said:
Taxes should have been collected from day one on online purchases. It was originally exempted because it was deemed too difficult to calculate. Bah.
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That'd be a bunch of sales tax permits...
 
Gerhardt said:
Taxes should have been collected from day one on online purchases. It was originally exempted because it was deemed too difficult to calculate. Bah.
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I'm clearly biased, but I oppose sales taxes on out of state purchases. My company sells aviation products all over the world. If we have to start filing 50 sales tax reports every month it would be pretty awful. Honestly, I have no interest in helping other states collect taxes if I'm not forced to do so.
 
Some of us don't have states income tax although, by the letter of the law, we're supposed to settle up our sales tax at least annually for purchases made on line.
 
There is no justification for business collecting taxes for any government agency.

Having said that, for businesses that have a presence in Taxachusetts, for example, at least they have some reason for understanding the Taxachusetts tax laws. Businesses that have zero presence in Taxachusetts cannot reasonably be expected to know any of the tax laws applicable to Taxachusetts residents.
 
In California, if no items over $1000 are purchased and they're not for business use, we have the option of calculating an estimate based on adjusted gross income. It only amounts to a few hundredths of a percent.
 
Bob Noel said:
There is no justification for business collecting taxes for any government agency.

Having said that, for businesses that have a presence in Taxachusetts, for example, at least they have some reason for understanding the Taxachusetts tax laws. Businesses that have zero presence in Taxachusetts cannot reasonably be expected to know any of the tax laws applicable to Taxachusetts residents.
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The state is not requiring the seller to know the tax laws. It is requiring the resident to keep track of out of state purchases and to then pay the taxes on them. I find it convenient that Amazon keeps track for me and I submit that all my out of state purchases were through Amazon.
 
cgrab said:
I suspect that anyone who claims zero online purchases in this day and age is not electronically filing their tax forms.
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You'd be very wrong about that.


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