You and I live in the state with the most insane sales tax laws ever written. We win!!
I think I remember Amazon closing down a couple of physical locations here to avoid dealing with this issue.
When I had the utter misfortune of having to deal up close and personal with sales tax issues..I seem to remember that mail-order retailers weren’t required to collect sales tax, as you have said, but the consumer is required to remit sales tax on their purchases from these companies. Like that is enforceable.
When I had the utter misfortune of having to deal up close and personal with sales tax issues..I seem to remember that mail-order retailers weren’t required to collect sales tax, as you have said, but the consumer is required to remit sales tax on their purchases from these companies. Like that is enforceable.
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That is the basis of most of this effort imo. Many states have a requirement for the paying of a ‘use tax’ which is for items purchased out of state and which no sales tax was collected and remitted back to that state by the seller. In other words someone purchasing stuff out of state via the internet or mail order and didn’t pay the sales tax to the seller then the purchaser was to file and pay the ‘use tax’ to their state at the end of that tax year. Some may have filed/paid but most never did.
Who knows where all this will wind up but the states are pushing for this as it’s tax money they want to have to spread about.