[Mars]

Originally Posted by sisukid1975

I don't think you're getting it. OK, from your second post, I think you are, but you're just not putting the pieces together.

If those companies are collecting FL sales taxes, it is because there is something that puts them within FL jurisdiction. A warehouse, a retail outlet, a business office, who knows? But there is something about those businesses that gives FL jurisdiction. Just like there is something about Apple (The Apple Stores in Madison and Milwaukee, for instance) that gives Wisconsin the jurisdiction to require Apple.com to collect sales tax from me when purchase online. However, it is quite obvious that Amazon has nothing that puts it in WI jurisdiction, since I do not pay WI sales tax on Amazon purchases.

The "...unlimited resources of the state of Florida..." can go to hell. They have no legal means whatsoever to compel a foreign company not in their jurisdiction to pay or collect their taxes. The State of Florida can have 500 lawyers write you 15 letters apiece every day of the week, and you can shred every one, ignore them, and there's nothing they can do about it. They have no authority to do anything about it.

The only thing they can do is file a lawsuit in Federal Court, and wait to lose it just like everyone else before them who tried. So unless the State of Florida has resources so unlimited that they are willing to argue against legal precedent that has been re-affirmed within the last 10 years, if I get anything in the mail from them telling me I have to collect their sales tax, it goes in the trash, which is about all the heed I am required to pay it, since they have no legal means to compel me to anything different.

I have yet to read any of this 'kettling.

It appears I was too hasty in deeming it not inane enough.

Somebody post up a summary for me.