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Originally Posted by itslarry
Can you imagine how expensive everything would get if resellers had to pay sales tax and pass it on to end consumer?
Life isn't fair, get a permit.
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It would be disaster to our economy and make many everyday items ridiculously expense, and some things virtually un-affordable to the average person.
And to an earlier poster about how an auction sale is not a "traditional" sale, what difference does that make? It doesn't matter because the sales tax laws include auctions in the definition of a taxable sale. Are you suggesting that auction sales should be excluded from being subject to sales tax? That makes no sense, a sale is a sale, no matter how the parties end up arriving at the final price. And if you wanted to exempt such "non-traditional" sales from sales tax, can you imagine the ends that people and businesses would go to and try to sell everything in such a non-traditional way so they could avoid sales taxes and gain an advantage over their competitors? States would end up losing more revenue and eventually clamp down on it like they are now doing with online, out-of-state retailers.