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Originally Posted by Apache
It would be an incredible burden for small business's to have to pay sales tax in multiple states. You have to have a sales tax number for each state. Some states require you to report which counties the sales tax is collected in. The paper work ca be time consuming to fill out properly. Some state's websites are more intuitive and others are a bear to use. Some you can submit the forms and pay online. Others you have to mail in the paperwork and check. Some states let you keep a very small percentage of the money collected to defer the paperwork costs.
Apache
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As a former
portable bookstore owner, with 3 States of Tax Numbers
(and a Internet presence).
All 3 of those states went down to the City Level in some cases.
Many cities had differing rates.
(but you needed to report sales by city anyway, so it was just record keeping)
One state had differing
what is taxable (or at a different rate) by city lists.
Just keeping track of the
current rates (effective dates and taxing rules) was an effort.
Then there was the reporting Forms
Nothing uni
form 
about those
Oh! Let us add
customers into the mix. Over 25% of my mail order customers could NOT even tell me what
county/parish they lived in (needed so I could look up the correct rate as their state did not provide a city-county breakdown list).
It is long past time we get a simplified system for Internet Only (no physical in that state presence) sales tax:
1 Consolidated form for reporting. (Reporting Frequency will be based upon the Forms 'Total Due' line)
1 payment Check to 1 National reporting center.
1 Rate ONLY for a State (and all Internet sales are exempted from Local reporting)
1 What is taxable List
Only then will it be easy for business to comply.
