Online sales-tax measure doesn't click with local sellers - Deseret News- BuildingWebsiteNews

Right now, customers outside of Utah buying CDs, DVDs or other items through Hiatt's eBay store or other Web sites do not pay sales taxes — one of the benefits of making purchases online. Hiatt, along with his wife and business partner, Paula, and other eBay "power sellers" came to Washington recently to urge lawmakers not to support pending bills that would add a sales tax to their customers' online orders. Hiatt said part of the problem for online businesses in applying sales tax is there are 7,500 different tax jurisdictions across the United States. Congress would still need to approve a law so that states agreeing to the streamlined tax could require businesses not located in their state to pay sales taxes for online purchases, which Enzi and Delahunt hope to accomplish through their bills. read more

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