SP Tax Reporting Notice - CO & WA

that concluding sentence bears careful reading.

That Colorado edict is too much. If you ship out of state what do they care? I was reading that Colorado hasn't made as much money as they thought they would from marijuana taxes. Apparently a lot of people want to try it but aren't planning on being habitual users. The problem for the state is that they based budget projections on projected marijuana sales and may face a shortfall as a result!

State of Misery tried to do this maybe fifteen years ago. I filled the form out once and never filed it. Neither did anyone in Mo. It's a lost cause. Thing is, you don't know that the company isn't figuring sales tax in their totals. Forgot the formula, but most of the Asian shops I know did the same thing. People didn't think they were paying taxes at Joey Thai's, but they were being paid.
As for my responsibility. Some sites charge now. Some don't do it directly. I know nothing

Yeah, it’s fun spending other people’s money until you run out of money to spend.

I do a really good job of playing stupid. This might require some thought. My mother told me (she did bookkeeping as well as other things) that if the IRS wants to they will find every penny you spend, cash or not. She watched them destroy one of her employers over the course of audits. But the sales tax is state. I think they are just throwing their mighty fist in the air and know eventually we'll all pay tax online. I was surprised when Amazon started charging me, but I have few places that weren't by the time AMZ started so I am used to sticker shock and adjust my expenditures if needed. Right now I am being overcharged sales tax by a food delivery service. I file that in my "Just In Case" drawer if I ever need it.

That was the BS that most states used when they started lotteries. Then they said casinos would benefit schools. Money always found its way elsewhere. 
  I remember blue laws where if you went into a small food store on Sunday you couldn't buy the fifteen cent kite because it was a toy, not a necessity. Blue law repeal was supposed to help in state sales and revenue. Then it was liquor on Sunday. I was for all that. I worked evenings and my only time to enjoy going out with the kids was Sundays. That said, then the Black Friday mobs started at Midnight after Thanksgiving Dinner. I don't recall it being called Black Friday when I was a kid. Then they opened the stores at 6am on BF. Now they are open on Thanksgiving. The one day that has nothing to do with with anything so man thought he would thank The Almighty. To me, it's the purest holiday... or was. Now it has become as much of a madhouse as people waiting two days in diapers for the next Apple update. I would give anything to return to Blue Laws, just for the sake of slowing society down. In fact, that's what smoking a pipe does for me. It slows things down

I didn't hear about the diaper thing until recently on one of their sales.

As to contemplating, I was in a political group in the early seventies, with Bob Metzler, who is the head of the St Louis Pipe Show coming up. Thing is, we all smoked our pipes. I was sixteen. We could just talk and relax all night. If we talked about the political opposition it was good natured and with a laugh. Four of us might share a six pack. Oh, wow. But that was what we did. I would run the folding machine. Someone else would be dictating. It was all fun and all relaxed. I think my wife sees how relaxed I am with a pipe and I get less grief about it now. To me, pipe smoking is noble. 

At worst you may pay a little more, but that would be about it. Don't even know if it would be called a tax, but maybe extra shipping cost for more paperwork

Sounds like a state by state greed issue, not an international one.

Any organization (maybe a state gov for instance) that cant manage money always asks for more. Problem is if its 1000 dollars or 1000000 dollars, if you cant manage money you still cant.

All states that charge sales tax. There was a 1992 Supreme Court decision against South Dakota that said that sales taxes on mail-order/internet companies could only be collected at point of sale. Now that ruling is up for review. The big fear is that the ruling could be so broad that it not just applies to sales tax but to all related taxes and duties including state tobacco taxes.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/bid-to-collect-internet-sales-tax-gets-u-s-high-court-review
www.engadget.com/2018/01/14/supreme-court-internet-sales-tax-case/

I may be reading this wrong but I placed a big order earlier in Jan 2o18 split between AZ and WI. I didn't get taxed on either location.
I'm surprised mail ordering tobacco across state lines has survived.

The bottom line is that Colorado and like, have forced a business to become their unpaid bookkeeper. How can this be?

The Colorado revenue office is not the IRS. I still don't understand how they can interfere with a South Carolina's business practice, when no official law regarding interstate tax collection has been passed.