..”A proposed online sales tax has been offered as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act”
..”Sen. Durbin is focused on working with his colleagues to try to get a vote on the bill before the end of this year, whether as a stand-alone bill or part of a larger piece of legislation,”
What it would allow is for STATES to collect their sales taxes on their residents, irrespective of a mail-order house having a presence in said state. As it stands now, residents are already liable, but they have to self-report tax.
Basically, it’s a clarification of a Supreme Court ruling from the early 90s.
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