Rumors abound that a certain piece of legislation might be introduced this Thursday!
Increasing state-by-state efforts to recover uncollected sales taxes due for most Internet purchases are creating an increasingly hostile compliance burden on multi-state retailers. If you didn’t think the budget problems were enough to encourage federal action on this matter, perhaps this growing body of state-by-state legislation (such as the so-called “Amazon Taxes,” and aggressive reporting requirements) is enough to compel federal action due to the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.
Not to mention, our new TaxCloud service (launching July 1) will eliminate all previous concerns related to undue technical or financial burden (its FREE!) as cited in the 1967 Bellas Hess opinion as the only reason for exempting Remote Sellers from their obligations to collect local sales tax. Bellas Hess anticipated technology could eventually solve the administrative burdens of calculating and remitting local sales taxes for every jurisdiction in the land, but even then only Congress has the ability to grant States interstate collection authority. FINALLY, after 43 years, Congress should now act.
As we like to say here at Fed-Tax.net “Shop Globally, Support Locally!”
OK, maybe you should turn your engines off for a few days… So much for the rumors. We apologize if we have caused you any confusion.