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Wed, Sep 28 2011 Listeria outbreak kills 13 Americans Wed, Sep 28 2011 Strapped states crave bigger online tax bite Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Special report: Nevada's big bet on secrecy Mon, Sep 26 2011 Obama offers $3.6 trillion deficit plan, would up taxes Mon, Sep 19 2011 Best Buy suffers as tech shoppers turn thrifty Tue, Sep 13 2011 Obama sends jobs plan to Congress, eyes tax hikes Mon, Sep 12 2011 Greece slaps new tax on property to cut deficit Sun, Sep 11 2011 Analysis & Opinion A war horse of a past fiscal crisis Notes on Groupon Related Topics Technology » Money » By Nanette Byrnes Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:10am EDT (Reuters) - With holiday shopping season near and billions of dollars in sales tax at stake, financially strapped state and local governments are pushing to collect more tax on online purchases, but real progress will require action in Washington where political gridlock prevails. Recent efforts by California made headlines nationwide when Amazon.com, one of the world's largest online retailers, agreed to begin collecting taxes on sales in that state as early as next September. The state, which faced a $25 billion budget deficit at the beginning of the year, is estimated to be losing $1.7 billion annually in uncollected online sales taxes. (Link to 2009 University of Tennessee study, here) Sales over the web are the fastest growing area of retailing and states are anxious to up their share. Deloitte LLP projects that this holiday season, retail sales overall will grow up 3 percent, but 14 percent online. Goldman Sachs has estimated that online shopping will jump from less than 10 percent of retail sales to over 17 percent by 2020. Under a Supreme Court decision now almost 20 years old, any national framework for collecting tax on remote sales would have to come from Congress. Until that happens, states can only seek sales taxes from companies with a physical operation in their state, leaving many sales to fall through the cracks. Amazon has facilities in California and other states which have pushed the online retailer to collect taxes on sales shipped to their residents. "We need help at the national level," says Mick Cornett, mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has lobbied extensively for federal action. "There's a limit to what we can do." Proponents of federal action say the current situation is unfair to local merchants who must collect sales tax. But it's another side of the issue -- the revenue loss to states and cities in uncollected taxes -- that has fueled action on the state level. Besides California, the states of New York, Texas, Illinois and others have recently approved laws aimed at collecting more sales tax on ecommerce. SLOW-GOING IN DC Progress on the issue has been slow in Washington, where anything with even a whiff of tax increase struggles. A bill introduced in late July by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin had five co-sponsors, none Republican. Bipartisan support will be necessary for even a chance of passage. On the state level, though, financial pressures seem to have erased partisan division on the issue. Texas' majority Republican legislature passed its legislation, and California's measure had support from both parties. Hoping to bring that cooperation and a sense of urgency on the issue to Washington, local businesspeople, mayors and other officials from states have been lobbying on Capitol Hill. Danny Diaz, spokesman for the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which has been pushing for a federal structure, estimates that between 150 and 200 members of Congress come from states which have recently taken action and would see hometown support for a federal solution. Oklahoma City's Mayor Cornett, a Republican, has lobbied lawmakers on the issue and raised it in a meeting with President Barack Obama. Cornett says the $10 to $15 million a year his city loses on uncollected taxes equates to between 100 and 150 firefighters or police. He says he's making progress arguing that these are taxes already owed, not new taxes. "Now you find conservatives in Washington who understand this is closing a loophole, it's not a new tax," says Cornett. "Most cities are just hanging on, trying to keep the firefighters and police on the street. This is one way Congress can help local governments without it costing them anything." Nationally, the cost of running local government is rising faster than tax revenue. Sinking property values are hurting real estate tax collections. Stagnant salaries have kept income tax flat in the states which impose one. Oklahoma's cities rely on sales taxes for 55 percent of their budget on average. In some places, sales tax covers more than 90 percent of the local budget. Arkansas municipalities rely on it heavily too, for close to 50 percent of their income from sales taxes. Slack receipts have driven 15 Arkansas cities to institute sales tax increases so far this year, according to the Arkansas Municipal League. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs calculates that in fiscal 2010, which ended August 31, her state lost $658 million in uncollected sales taxes. Sales tax contributes 55 percent of the state's total income. (Reporting by Nanette Byrnes in Chapel Hill, NC; additional reporting by Patrick Temple West in Washington; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Chizu Nomiyama) Technology Money Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) advocatusdiabol wrote: Sales tax for physical sales is based on the location of the merchant I buy from. If I travel to AZ from CA, I don’t pay CA sales tax. So when I buy from AZ, on the internet, the sale is actually made in AZ not CA—the order is taken there, the goods shipped from there, and I contact customer service there if I have a problem. CA has not right to require I pay CA sales tax any more than they do if I drive to AZ and buy. I should pay AZ tax if anything at all. States need to live within their means instead looking for more pockets to pick. Like crack addicts who steal from others to support their habit and increase stealing when the habit grows, States would rather find new sources of other people’s money to garnish than cut back on their addiction to spending. Sep 29, 2011 9:34am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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