To my knowledge, sales tax on online purchases only applied if there was a B&M store in your state?
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To my knowledge, sales tax on online purchases only applied if there was a B&M store in your state?
No. Sales tax is on the purchases that you made in your state. You are supposed to declare all of your purchases that did not have sales tax applied to them when you file state taxes (at least in a number of states...this came up with the Amazon tax New York pushed through).
They just don't really care or bother to check though, so most people don't report anything. I do believe that they can only "force" a state to do it by specific legislation or if they have the store in the buyers' territory.
They just don't really care or bother to check though, so most people don't report anything. I do believe that they can only "force" a state to do it by specific legislation or if they have the store in the buyers' territory.
No doubt one of these days all people have to be registered for sales tax and give their sales tax registration information when they make purchases. Including online businesses having to indicate in their returns who the purchasers were and their sales tax reference numbers.
Almost all purchases on the supermarket, deparment store and other stores including online stores have taxes. If I'm not mistaken, the current value added tax, here in the Philippines, is 12%. But there are many people who this value decreased to 10%.No doubt one of these days all people have to be registered for sales tax and give their sales tax registration information when they make purchases. Including online businesses having to indicate in their returns who the purchasers were and their sales tax reference numbers.
What about people from outside those countries? Surely it would be wrong to levy local taxes on people who are not from the countries?
Yeah. They don't have any right to tax another country's citizens. For example, European countries don't charge VAT to people not from a VAT country.
The states are well within their rights to tax purchases though. It's also really easy to do. A number of websites already do it. If you have an IP from a certain state, then it tacks on extra charges. You could theoretically go through a proxy, but you'd be praying that the webmaster didn't skim the log and gain access to all of your credit info.
The states are well within their rights to tax purchases though. It's also really easy to do. A number of websites already do it. If you have an IP from a certain state, then it tacks on extra charges. You could theoretically go through a proxy, but you'd be praying that the webmaster didn't skim the log and gain access to all of your credit info.
I think a Website like Adobe is very shrewd, as they charge different prices for their software everywhere in the world. Their lowest price is for the United States, and if I should try and buy it outside the United States, it picks up on it. I can imagine this must be the case for DVDs too which nowadays have been made region specific. Perhaps soon there will be different prices domestic and international for all products.
I think that's why people move to pirated, cracked or hacked softwares instead of original ones. Because downloading it will not costs one a single cent. The only problem is if that software have viruses.
Take for instance, ThePirateBay.ORG. It's owners are been caught by the officials and currently facing lots of charges because of copyright infridgement. But last time I accessed their site, it's still up and working. I don't know now.
Thanks for the warning. I've always been careful with pirated and "free" software. I tend to go for the intermediate ones that are lower in price and sold through recognizable companies, such as SummitSoft. But having said this I also know you can be as careful as you want to be, and you can still be vulnerable just by my mere interaction on the Internet. Hacking and inserting marketing and malicious viruses in software have become a sophisticated artform, and probably will continue to be adjusted and perfected by the hackers.
I will tell I a lie if I said I don't often download those softwares. Since our family is just in the middle class, we can't afford to buy those softwares so I download them directly on the internet, especially on warez sites. But everytime I look for softwares, I tend to look for free ones and if I don't have a choice, I will download these kinds of softwares. But before installing it, I always scan it with my anti-virus software ko detect if there are viruses or malicious files included.
A lot of free software isn't pirated, though, but offered by companies as a sample of sorts, or even as a service. I use free photo software from Google.
I personally use GIMP for my free photo software. It's just about as good as Photoshop for anything I'd need. Throw in Open Office and you've got a lot of power for free.
I also use it for making graphics. Take a look at my avatar, I manipulated and added text on it using GIMP. And there's also Inkscape. A free vector image editing software.
I also use GIMP. Will look at Inkscape too. But GIMP is really awesome especially in terms of their support and help features. I used to use a light version of Adobe Photoshop, and find GIMP much improved for what I am using it for. It is now my "photoshop" of choice.
I haven't tried Adobe Photoshop myself but I can see that there are lots of people using that program. In my opinion, GIMP is better since it is free to use and can be use in almost all platforms(Windows, Mac and Linux). Plus it doesn't takes too much space on your system except if you have lots of brushes installed.
It is very user-friendly too. Great part about it is that you can easily learn while you are doing. Would be great when they can find something like that for replacing Gates' Microsoft Office package. OpenEnd is good, but we need something more to the equivalent of GIMP.
But what is OpenEnd? More likely like Open Office?
How about OS wise. Is Linux a good choice? Does it have an interface like that of Windows? And I have heard that it offers free license. Is that true?
Oops, sorry, I meant Open Office. Linux would be great, but I see that the work place where I am are moving to Outlook again. Wrong move I think!
But do Open Office offers the same file format than that of Microsoft Office like .doc(Document), .xls(Spreadsheet) or .ppt(Powerpoint)?Oops, sorry, I meant Open Office. Linux would be great, but I see that the work place where I am are moving to Outlook again. Wrong move I think!
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