{"id":2092,"date":"2008-04-13T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T17:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/13\/technology-news-7\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T17:27:30","slug":"technology-news-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/technology-news-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shouldda kept the guy with the hooker&#8230;..<\/strong>New New York Governor David Paterson will likely sign a bill now working its way through the final legislative steps that will add a sales tax to items purchases on the internet by New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The controversial bill ends what for many New Yorkers had been tax-free online shopping, and experts predict that other states could follow suit with similar provisions. Consumers are required to report purchases they make online from out-of-state companies on their tax returns and remit a use tax, but many people are either unaware of that obligation or ignore it. Collecting those taxes from individuals has been an administrative impossibility.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/ec-news\/article.php\/3740056\/Amazon+Tax+Lands+in+New+York.htm\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Only kidding about the hooker-guy &#8230; Spitzer actually introduced the bill.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shouldda kept the guy with the hooker&#8230;..New New York Governor David Paterson will likely sign a bill now working its way through the final legislative steps that will add a sales tax to items purchases on the internet by New Yorkers. The controversial bill ends what for many New Yorkers had been tax-free online shopping, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/technology-news-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technology News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-xK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}