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And yet, this has been a thing long before Amazon existed. They were able to pull it off back then.
by s73ver_ 9y ago
And yet, this has been a thing long before Amazon existed. They were able to pull it off back then.
- ghaff 9y agoIt actually hasn't. Anyone without a presence in the buyer's state who shipped anything out of state (aside from some particular bigger ticket items that are registered to the buyer in some way) simply didn't collect sales tax and left it up to the buyer to pay any "use tax" they owed at tax time.
- lostapathy 9y agoAnd those sales were a tiny fraction of the economy compared to today, so comparatively speaking, it mattered a heck of a lot less.