A sales tax, combined with shipping costs, would certainly doom this retailer and put thousands out of work. Rather, troubled companies like Kmart and online start-up businesses appear most endangered by sales taxes. This reality is not lost on the Wal-Marts of the world. We work five full months of the year to pay our annual tax debt. It is often said that death and taxes are inevitable.
Taxation is an eventual certainty for Internet shopping.
But . . . perhaps the advisory panel can keep the tax collectors at bay until the e-commerce industry matures. In the interim, consumers should take full advantage of the rare opportunity for tax-free shopping. Click here and join the discussion in the Reginald Shareef folder. Reginald Shareef Reginald Shareef is a professor in the Political Science Department at Radford University with a specialty in Public Administration, Leadership and Organization Change. He has long been involved in public policy issues in Roanoke that range from public schools to urban renewal.