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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I think this is probably right.
I think the difficulty of collecting these taxes is overstated - online retailers with a presence in every state (Walmart.com, apple.com, bn.com) have been able to do this for years with no difficulty. I understand that the general approach is to subscribe to a service that keeps track of sales taxes by address for every state. Which is not as hard as it sounds if you are appopriately staffed - every state has one agency that does the same thing for that particular state...so even if the state consists of a patchwork of jurisdictions, you can find this all out by just going to one place in each state.
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I love comments like this. "the problem is overstated", all you need to do is "be appropriately staffed" and contact every state agengcy (50 the last I heard) and then find a way to convert the data into your own software. No big deal! Small business owners can rejoice!
And people who think like this are the ones that run our government.