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[RetroRevolver77]

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[Biggy]

Collecting the sales tax is the easy part. Remittance to each state, each quarter with 50 different processes will be the nightmare for many, many small businesses. Income tax and then sales tax?
They don't enforce border laws, but they will always enforce tax laws. Can anyone tell me how this will benefit our economy? So larger retailers win, small independent retailers lose. Not to mention their customers. There are tens of thousands of separate tax districts in the U.S. How is a smaller seller supposed to handle that? I intentionally purchase from online retailers who don't charge sales or shipping and I will continue to look for that.

[RetroRevolver77]

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[SomeOtherGuy]

What I don't understand is how they can force someone to collect a sales tax and remit it on behalf of the customer in states where they don't have an actual business.

That is an excellent question. This 5-4 holding may have much more far-ranging implications than just sales tax. I need to read it several times, but at minimum it could have implications for banking, credit cards, national advertising of attractions that are specific to one or two locations (like theme parks), insurance, etc.

[Averageman]

So who didn't see this coming?
Really, if you can't pass a budget, let alone balance one, or pay off the National Debt, you better find some new revenue sources.

[MountainRaven]

This strikes me as something to ensure that the big internet retail companies remain big internet retail companies and discourage entrepreneurs from starting new internet retail companies.

And, of course, software companies and companies like PayPal stand to make big bucks by offering services to automatically calculate, collect, and pay individual state sales taxes.

[Moose-Knuckle]

This will change where I shop with Amazon being the exception since they have been collecting my state's sales tax for sometime now.

I usually shop from out of state businesses specifically to save on the sales tax combined with free shipping and usually a discount price. I can't remember the last time I bought a firearm from a retailer in my home state.

[austinN4]

Here is how they voted:
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the 5-4 decision, jettisoning the court's longstanding rule that states cannot require companies without a physical presence to collect sales taxes. He was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.

[The_War_Wagon]

Well, if it brings BACK four gun shops on every city block, I guess I can live WITHOUT Gunbroker.

Otherwise, I predict MUCH non-compliance.


And I'm surprised the IRS could only kidnap 5 justices' kids before this vote...

[Alex V]

When you think of the phrase, "getting blood from a stone", remember, the government will always find a way.