Mass madness, where will it end?

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

Although this is heresay at the moment, but I believe the state is trying to attach a tax for internet sales with companies OUTSIDE of Massachusetts.

So you will, in effect, be taxed twice for the same purchase.
Once by the seller, and again by the state because you "bought from out-of-state".

I've spent thousands of dollars on online sales with websites outside of whatever state I happened to be living in, and I've never paid a dime of sales tax. What kind of online retailer is going to try to keep up with collecting and submitting sales tax to the 40-odd states that have a sales tax?

Now, Massachusetts could try to collect sales tax on the millions of online purchases made every year by hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents. The operative word there is "try". The bottom line is that they'd only succeed on items that you would somehow have to regisiter.

My property taxes went down because we were re-assessed with view towards the current RE market. My assessment went from $325,000 to $289,000. If your town raised assessments, then I would suggest that you should pursue whatever appeal you may have.