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According to the article: "Each state that wants “remote sellers” to collect sales tax must establish a single entity to manage tax collection and audits for th
by milesskorpen 14y ago
According to the article: "Each state that wants “remote sellers” to collect sales tax must establish a single entity to manage tax collection and audits for the entire state. Sellers won’t have to deal with all 5,900+ separate taxing municipalities in the country, just 50."
So the bill does address this concern.
- ams6110 14y agoThe bill appears to address the collection/audit concerns, but not the burden of correctly calculating the tax due on any particular sale.
- ebbv 14y agoIt addresses that too. The states have to provide an API where you give them the address of the customer, the type of transaction, etc. and they tell you what the tax rate would be for it.
- dragonwriter 14y ago> The bill appears to address the collection/audit concerns, but not the burden of correctly calculating the tax due on any particular sale. The bill addresses that by requiring each state to provide software free of charge to retailers that does that for the entire state, and by providing explicit uniform rules for sourcing (well, technically, there are two sets of sourcing rules -- one in the bill for states that are not part of the "Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement", and one in that agreement that the bill adopts by reference for states that are a member of the agreement.) You provide the sourcing information (applying the rules in the bill for sourcing), the state software provides the tax rate. The state software is the only part that has to care about identifying substate jurisdictions and applying their rules.