Talk:Use tax

message: Can someone please add some more information on how this tax could be legal. It is in direct violation of Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 5. "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." This request for improvements in the article by
74.64.90.198 (at 05:09, 20 December 2008) was moved to the talk page by 192.118.27.253 (talk) 05:43, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, use taxes aren't intended to protect the merchants of the state so much as the state's own revenue stream.  West's Encyclopedia of American Law states: A use tax may be imposed to prevent someone from evading a sales tax by buying goods in a nontaxing state and shipping them into the state that imposes the sales tax.  If the state really cared about its merchants it would eliminate the sales tax. Pwhanson (talk) 09:59, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Legality

message: I think the history of use tax would be a helpful addition. I've attempted to search for information on how the use tax came about, but haven't found much of anything. How did it originate? Which state was the first to implement it? Which states followed? What does the timeline look like? Where does Quill vs North Dakota fit in? How has this and other legal cases affected tax law? Etc. 208.107.27.200 (talk) 07:29, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: How is "With few exceptions, no state's vendors will charge the native state's sales tax on goods shipped out of state" different from "Few states' vendors will charge the native state's sales tax on goods shipped out of state"? 172.56.11.28 (talk) 03:18, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  None, with exceptions 

message: Colorado attempted to require (Amazon.com I think) to provide information on sales to Colorado.  This was ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court (the grounds were it was a regulation of interstate commerce which was prohibited to the states by the Constitution).  I think this should be added, but I don't have the information to put it in myself.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.20.146.242 (talk) 17:03, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supreme Court 

message: The lead does a poor job of properly explaining what the use tax is. It says " It is essentially the same as a sales tax but is applied not where a product or service was sold but where a merchant bought a product or service and then converted it for its own use, without having paid tax when it was initially purchased." I bolded the word Merchant and "It's own use" becuase I believe they do not properly explain who in all is supposed to use taxes. Based on what I have read, use taxes (where they are collected) apply to all consumers (not just merchants) who purchases tax-free goods from out of states (such as via mail-order or online shopping) and they are supposed to pay it when they file their state taxes (for residents of states that have a use tax). It is not just a tax that merchants pay (or at least are supposed too pay in uss tax states.) but one any tax payer might need to pay. This Also, something else missing from the article is that few people actually pay the use tax and few states have cracked down on people not paying this tax when they should. Rather, their has been an effort to enforce out of state merchants to charge sales taxes for merchants of state of merchants location, based on the tax rate of the residency of the purchaser. So basically, we need to clarify the definition of a use tax and add something on the current low compliance rate in many if not most or all states that have a use tax. --2600:1700:56A0:4680:5831:22C9:2567:6140 (talk) 02:56, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some clarity needed in article