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Originally Posted by taustin
That's because such laws were ruled unconstitutional decades ago, when mail order (and that's what buying physical products off the internet is) was big business. There's nothing new, legally, to explore there.
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Read the Quill opinion again. It is unconstitutional for *a state* to require a business located in *another state* to collect taxes owed in the first state. It is perfectly constitutional for *congress*, using its power to regulate interstate commerce, to do so. For about the last decade there has been a bill similar to the "Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act" floating around congress that would do just that - but Congress hasn't seemed too eager to pass it, for obvious reasons.