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Whom do members of Idaho’s House Revenue and Taxation Committee think they represent, anyway? It sure isn’t Idaho’s Main Street retailers, who must collect the state’s 6 percent sales tax on every sale they make while most online and catalog retailers collect nothing. The retailers know this puts them at a competitive disadvantage. For that reason, the Idaho Retailers Association has always strongly supported the Streamlined Sales Tax Project through which 22 other states are working to capture tax dollars that are supposed to be paid by Idahoans making purchases, but for online or other distant sales almost never are/Jim Fisher, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: Should the Idaho Legislature make it easier to collect sales tax from Idahoans purchasing items online?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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