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Privacy Nightmare: Online Retailers Must Report Vermont Purchases To Government
Vermont’s use tax is meant to make sure that Vermont citizens don’t shop online or across the border to avoid the state’s sales tax. Currently, only about 10 percent of people pay the 6% use tax according to Tax Commissioner Kaj Samsom.
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Scare tactics. As the article says, it's only going to cover companies that do over $100,000 business in VT per annum, and then only customers who spend more than $500 per annum with those vendors. Good luck with all the rest, not to mention cash business next door in New Hampshire. And unless I receive a registered letter someone forces me to sign for, I never received it.
They're going to end up spending more than they get from this. Let them. We'll just keep busy finding ways to continue to avoid their taxes, choke off their supply of revenue, and diminish public support for them altogether.