Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce is the buying or selling items over the internet through two or more computers to make a profit. There are four main different ways of electronic commerce (e-commerce). The ways e-commerce takes place is business to business, where a store like Nike might sell to a Shoe Outlet Store online, business to consumer, where a store such as Best Buy sells to a guy named Jim online, consumer to consumer, where Jim sells to Jane online, and business to government, where a store such as Office Depot would sell to the Pentagon online. All of these ways listed are types of e-commerce that businesses, the government, or even people just like you use and earn money off of.

E-commerce has influenced our society both positively and negatively. It has positively changed our society by offering internet stores that are open twenty four hours a day. Also, it is a lot cheaper and easier to set up an e-commerce website that it is to make your own store. E-commerce has negatively influenced our society because it is harder to find out about an e-commerce than a regular store. A lot of work is done to keep the sites up to date and to keep the site’s ratings up so that more people do notice it. Lastly, there is no personal contact with the seller/buyer. Normally it will be negative as in you need to ask the seller a very important question and he doesn’t check his e-mails and he never receives your question.

The positives and negatives of e-commerce taxation are split into three categories. The positives and negatives for the government, the consumer, and the business. The positive for e-commerce taxation in the government is that they get more money. And the more money thy get, the more money they have to spent on our nation. There really is no negative for the government to tax e-commerce; because, they get more money! The positive for the consumer about e-commerce taxation is… there is none! This is because all the consumer is doing is paying more money. Nobody wants to pay more money! The negative is like the positive; the consumer has to pay more money. The positive effect of taxation for the business in taxation on e-commerce is that people will find going online to do e-commerce and buying the same product in the store is the same. That gives the website a 50% chance of selling the product online instead of the consumer going to a store. The negative for taxation on e-commerce for the business is paperwork.