{"id":2189,"date":"2011-11-17T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2011-11-17T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:56:38","slug":"okc-retailers-in-d-c-to-push-internet-sales-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/11\/17\/okc-retailers-in-d-c-to-push-internet-sales-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC Retailers in D.C. to Push Internet Sales Tax Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma lawmakers and business leaders were the first to enter the fray, and now local retailers are taking their turn at the nation\u2019s capital to push for a bill that would <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/11\/16\/internet-sales-taxes-in-oklahoma-what%e2%80%99s-at-stake-who%e2%80%99s-behind-it-and-why-collecting-them-is-so-complicated\/\">force online retailers<\/a> to collect sales taxes.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-city-retailers-press-their-legislators-in-washington-for-a-level-playing-field-with-online-sellers\/article\/3623886?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Newsok%2FNews%2FPolitics+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+news+%3E%3E+politics%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">From<\/a> <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>\u2019s Chris Casteel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They sell bicycles and cameras in Oklahoma City, along with tea sets, cloth diapers and vacuum cleaners.<\/p><p>And they came to Washington on Thursday to ask Oklahoma lawmakers to help them compete more fairly with the out-of-state retailers who can sell those same items online without charging state and local sales tax.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->The OKC retailers met with four members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation to voice concerns that the lack of sales tax collection among Internet retailers puts brick-and-mortar stories like theirs at a competitive disadvantage.<\/p><p>Sonya Epperson of Epperson Photo-Video told <em>The Oklahoman<\/em> that the conversation wasn\u2019t encouraging.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Epperson said most of the lawmakers were friendly and knowledgeable about the issue but that Lankford wasn&#8217;t optimistic Congress would move quickly on legislation that would allow states to compel online retailers with annual sales over $500,000 to collect sales taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma lawmakers and business leaders were the first to enter the fray, and now local retailers are taking their turn at the nation\u2019s capital to push for a bill that would force online retailers to collect sales taxes.From The Oklahoman\u2019s Chris Casteel: They sell bicycles and cameras in Oklahoma City, along with tea sets, cloth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[201,177,203],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}