By 2007, the traditional retailers, as well nontraditional ones such as Dell Computer were collecting sales tax on-line and half of online purchases were subject to sales tax.
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It's a low-margin but steady business: DTCC charges six-tenths of a cent per trade to net out purchases and sales.
In theory, a consumer is supposed to pay sales tax on purchases from out-of-state retailers.
For large-ticket purchases like autos, we will need to see how sales in the coming months play out to form any hard and fast conclusions about the year as a whole.
It thought it could use Medco, which is hired by managed-care firms to fulfill drug purchases for patients, to increase the sales of its own drugs.
The subject of Egan's rant is a bill the Senate is considering that would require online retailers to collect state sales taxes on out-of-state purchases.
Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs.
As a result, some folks in states with an income tax who've made certain big-dollar purchases, might actually be able to deduct more by opting for the sales taxes break.
Precisely how it goes about that is unclear, though, and there is discomfort among some in the publishing industry who worry that preorders are being corralled and bulk purchases are being made to appear like single sales to qualify for inclusion in best-seller lists, which normally wouldn't count such sales.
Given that nearly 50% of luxury purchases made by Chinese take place outside of the mainland, the most effective way to monitor high-end retail sales is to track credit card transactions.
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However, since Apple will not benefit from delayed purchases as it did in the fourth quarter of 2011, Gartner analysts expect its sales to decline quarter-on-quarter.
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They are second-round victims: the credit crunch has left millions of potential customers unable to finance car purchases, crushing sales for an already weakened industry.
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That's how 2012 finished off as well according to Gartner, with cellphone purchases down 1.7 percent overall from 2011, but sales of higher-IQ models up 38.3 percent year-on-year.
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