Monthly Archives: November 2007

He backed down — for now

Spitzer’s changed his mind about his new Internet commerce tax policy. In a second major policy reversal in less than a day, Governor Spitzer is backing down from a plan to require Amazon.com and other online retailers to charge state … Continue reading

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The real “loophole”

Just to clarify my last post. The real “loophole” Spitzer has closed with this new tax policy is that, in the past, we taxpayers were supposed to voluntarily report our Internet shopping and voluntarily pay sales tax on our Internet … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas, from Eliot

Here he goes again. The governor of New York State, where we already have the dis-honor of paying the highest taxes of any state in the nation, has enacted a new decree. We must now pay NYS sales tax on … Continue reading

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