NY Wants Online Sales Tax
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Amazon.com is fighting Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to require online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York, whether the companies are in New York or not.
Several other money-strapped states have mulled going after the taxes.
Spitzer's proposed budget would require Internet giants like Amazon to collect tax on an estimated $47 million in sales to New Yorkers, who are currently required by an honor system to report how much they spend online on their tax returns.
Amazon spokesman Paul Misener says the governor's plan would be a radical departure from anything currently being done in the U.S.
He says other states — including California, Michigan, North Carolina and Texas — have considered similar plans, but abandoned the idea.
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Grounds for Divorce in Ohio - Sylkatis Law, LLC
A divorce in Ohio is filed when there is typically “fault” by one of the parties and party not at “fault” seeks to end the marriage. A court in Ohio may grant a divorce for the following reasons:
• Willful absence of the adverse party for one year
• Adultery
• Extreme cruelty
• Fraudulent contract
• Any gross neglect of duty
• Habitual drunkenness
• Imprisonment in a correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint
• Procurement of a divorce outside this state by the other party
Additionally, there are two “no-fault” basis for which a court may grant a divorce:
• When the parties have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation
• Incompatibility, unless denied by either party
However, whether or not the the court grants the divorce for “fault” or not, in Ohio the party not at “fault” will not get a bigger slice of the marital property.