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Originally Posted by issybird
There are now sales tax laws called, you guessed it, Amazon laws, whereby a company has to charge the applicable sales tax for the delivery address even in stars where it doesn't have a physical presence. It apples to several states and I believe involves only companies of a certain size, so that artisan cited above only had to collect for her home state.
I haven't made a big study of this, though, since there's no sales tax in my state and it's just of (limited) academic interest to me.
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Those laws are currently unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court. A number of states are trying it again, with the hope that they will find a sympathetic judge and it will get past the current Supreme Court. Congress explicitly exempts online sales from sales tax.