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Companies like Amazon should just link to third party tax collecting payment sites. Similar to how some online vendors are "PayPal only". Except in this case, the "PayPal" part would be a country-managed tax collection system that works as a middleman between the customer and the vendor. The vendor wants $20 for their item, the middleman then charges the customer $25 (or whatever they want for taxes added on), forwards $20 to the vendor and keeps the rest. The vendor does not have to manage, collect and remit any taxes, they just know that to do business in a specific country they should ONLY allow payment via that county's middleman. So the county becomes responsible for collecting their own taxes, by providing their approved middleman.
The countries wanting tax money do no get to force vendors to do their tax collection dirty work for them (all the while not paying the vendors for that service), and those countries are in total control over how much they want to gouge their fellow countrymen for. And each country has complete and efficient records of transactions to use as hammers on their citizens.
This sounds kind of like North Korea and their government run internet filtering, but really, what countries like Australian are trying to do is somewhat like North Korea's citizen control. They should take ownership of it and be responsible for it if that's the type of control they want to exert. They shouldn't be able to pawn the work off on some overseas vendor and expect the vendor to take care of it for free.
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