How is an online business supposed to collect taxes? From where the item is sold from or where the buyer is located?
If it is where the seller is located look for the $0 sales tax states of Delaware, New Hampshire, Montana, and Oregon to have a HUGE influx of online retailers come in.
I have an online business doing under $250k in revenue and this would really hurt my ability to sell much less the cost to collect and figure out what should be taxed where at what rate.
They don’t care.
They just want YOU to pay, because it’s known that the purchasers won’t.
Maryland has been known to extort sales tax from persons who have made in-person purchases in tax-free Delaware.