@rygorous And if you have enough tax regimes that don't require payment processors to support them, it becomes an O(nm) problem.
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@rygorous Tackling at the payment processor makes it O(n), assuming a small number of total payment processors relative to merchants :)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous The current problem with VAT MOSS, for example, isn't that payment processors can't handle it automatically. Many do!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous The problem is that the law is written such that the payment processor isn't required to _remit_ the taxes.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous So instead, every business everywhere in the world just gets a _spreadsheet_ that says all the taxes they have to remit.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous So it turns, you know, everyone who sells on Etsy or something into an accounting firm.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous This is specifically the problem I have with HH right now - SendOwl _does_ track VAT MOSS automatically. But I have to remit it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous And the law is written to require me to enforce it, which means I have to try to check whether people who buy live where they say.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous These things are extremely difficult for a one-man shop, right? So if the law just required the PP to do this, it's solved.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rygorous PayPal, etc., are all plenty big enough to handle this, but they won't bother if the law doesn't make them.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@rygorous So all we're asking for is that the payment processor does the remittance and enforcement. That's it. That's the whole change.
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@cmuratori Again, you're assuming that some third party processes the payment. Which I've been trying to tell you is often not how it works!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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