Preach two Ministry of the Secret Planning of the electricity business Tax: to implement the operational details of the stage

Jindong by Suning chairman of the "Electric business tax" has been a stone stirred the waves, not only to Su Ning and Taobao interest contradictions openly intensified, and a traditional physical retail and e-commerce retail battle has begun.

Gripping: When the old hemisphere levying, the same proposition in the Western Hemisphere is coming to an climax. The United States Senate will vote on the Market Equity Act (The Marketplace Fairness Act) as early as March 22.

The bill, which concerns the future fate of the US electric trader, made a noise last month.

On February 16 This year, the U.S. Senate again filed a review of the fair-market Act, the main element of which is to allow U.S. state governments to impose local sales taxes on network-electric-power companies in the context of simplifying their tax laws.

The tax path is: The network electric Business enterprise collects the consumption tax to the consumer, then the electricity merchant's state state government collects the sales tax to the electricity merchant enterprise. It is noteworthy that this is also the first national Internet consumption tax proposal in the history of the United States, which will require many home appliance business enterprises, including Ebay[Weibo, to pay sales tax to the local government.

ebay objected: "If the bill were to be implemented, it would have a huge impact on the large number of small owners who set up online shops on ebay, especially small businesses with annual sales of less than $1 million trillion." ”

What happens next is exactly the same as China.

When Gome and Lenovo expressed their solidarity with jindong, hundreds of of offline retail companies, including Best Buy, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, collectively stood up to support the Fair Act.

And when the Western Hemisphere comes to its climax, China's policy tightening on e-commerce taxes may come sooner than expected.

According to our correspondent from the wind circle to get the message: China's Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance have been secretly held in Beijing by the Electronic Business platform has invested VC and PE people of the meeting, which is a crucial meeting agenda, not to attend to the investment agencies should be levied levying, but the specific implementation of how to collect, how to operate.

However, this parallel occurrence in the eastern hemisphere of the electric levying is not the most exciting, what is really exciting is: whether the Eastern hemisphere or the Western hemisphere of which is required to levy electricity levying, China will have small and medium-sized interests are directly affected.

Since 2007, China has a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises on the ebay global platform to sell their goods to American consumers. In other words, if the Fair Act is passed, China will have a certain number of small and medium enterprise interests to be hit.

"We have no way to comment. "We are also paying close attention to the progress of things," ebay's China-related official said in a reply to our correspondent on March 20. ”

Two camps

On behalf of Wal-Mart, Amazon [Weibo], and another on ebay, the protesters stand as two teams. Interestingly, internet companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, LivingSocial and AOL all stand with ebay.

Ebay may be the biggest company to rebound from the Market Equity Act.

While the bill will not drastically change the way ebay does business, ebay believes it will affect the survival of sellers on ebay.

"Small economies should not face new taxes. "It would be a disaster for them to do so," defended Brian Bieron, head of global PR relations at ebay. ”

Like Taobao, ebay doesn't want this to happen because consumers are taxed on purchases and may reduce the likelihood of their online purchases, reducing the amount of trading on the platform and losing the competitive advantage of traditional retailers. And smaller businesses will be more thinly traded online.

However, the first line of firm support for the Fair Act was rapidly forming.

They include Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Home Depot, Sears and other traditional American retailers. This line of companies thinks they've been wronged for years: Because over the years, ebay has a comparative advantage over them, which is unfair when it comes to trading without having to impose a consumer tax on consumers.

It is noteworthy that the same E-commerce company's Amazon is also impressively in the column.

This led to a long history of the United States. First, the laws of the United States vary by state. Second, in the 90 's, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that if retailers sell their products to clients outside the state, the state cannot force local retailers to charge a excise tax on transactions unless the retailer has a department and enough business presence in the state where the customer is located.

Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, and Seattle belongs to Washington state. In the past few years, when Amazon began building warehouses in California State, the California government asked Amazon to pay a excise tax in September 2012. In other words, California consumers have already been charged a excise tax by Amazon when they buy it online.

According to the reporter to the Amazon English official website inquiry: Currently by Amazon or Amazon affiliate directly sent items, and sent to nine states to pay excise tax. The nine states are: Arizona, California, Kansas, Kentucky State, New York, North Dakota State, Pennsylvania State, Texas State and Washington state.