Is New York State Now The Federal Government?
If I had an online store I would just refuse to ship to NY. I bet it wouldn’t take long for this tax to disappear if evereyone did that.
Posted by single stack
05/02/2008 at 11:26 AM
Years ago, as an independent truck driver, I was required to pay road taxes for Federal and State. Much to my surprise New York figured the Federal one was not enough and had their own tax form for anyone that traveled through New York State. This really pissed me off, that we were going to have to pay NY more that anyone else. Then I looked and realized that if you want to transport into(or out of)New England, you must travel through NY.(Unless Canada is an Option)Does this seem fair, I did’nt think so.
Then while planning a trip west through NY, I was considering bringing a firearm with me. I did some research and what I found amounted to the fact that NY does not want anybody transporting firearms through NY and the laws are written that way, not like everyone else. All states other than NY that I have looked into, will allow the transportation of a firearm as long as the gun is unloaded and locked in a seperate container as the ammunition, which needs to be locked in a container as well. NY has a very high opinion of themselves along with the laws that they get away with making.
Minnesota has been doing this for a while.Not every on-line merchant collects the taxes though but I usually have to ante up an extra 4-5% at checkout.
The new law is based on a novel definition of what constitutes a presence in the state: It includes any Web site based in the state that earns a referral fee for sending customers to an online retailer.
How is NY counting these websites? I live in Ohio, yet my website is hosted in North Carolina. If I lived in NY and my blog was hosted there, guess the first order of business would be to move my blog out-of-state. Voila! No ‘presence’ in the state.
If this definition of ‘presence’ holds up, I wonder how long before nobody has their sites hosted in NY? How many NY hosting companies would go out of business? I would love to see that happen.
This is only an example, I dunno where any of these businesses are located, so bear with me here.
It sounds to me as if, using the same logic they are using, that if John Deere were based in NY and Sears were based in CA, that if I go to my local Sears store in southeast TX and buy a John Deere lawnmower, Sears should hit me for NY state sales tax. Or for that matter ANYTHING I buy at Sears, because it carries a line of products *among many others* made by a company based in NY. If THAT one goes through, interstate commerce won’t be regulated, it will be shattered.lateforwork: I was a trucker years ago, and was told a story about NY firearms laws. The guy swears it was *him*, not someone he had heard it from. At the time, posession of a firearm by a commercial driver in NY was a mandatory year and a day. This guy was making runs to Hunt’s Point Market in the Bronx, he DID NOT like the idea of going in unarmed.
So he did some reading, found out the legal definition of the word “firearm”.... went to a marine supply store and bought a flare pistol. It’s not a firearm, it’s safety equipment… but I dunno about you, I think I’d rather take a slug from damn near anything than get a magnesium flare in the gut.That’s is interesting Grumpy(Geez arnt thos tuck divers smat), but the two I had referred to where unrelated. Years after my driving a truck, I was simply taking a personnel trip to the mid west to visit folks that had plenty of land to shoot and camp, not wanting to risk ruining the vacation on some bullshit firearms charge.
