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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
This is going to start happening more often…..Companies don’t want the government looking into their dealing with anybody. This also includes Fleabag. If the government ever comes down on them they will be crying the blues….
I still can’t imagine how all 50 states are going to be able to pull their act together and get millions of individual online sellers to comply with one zillion different tax rates. I’ll wait for them to come knocking on my door because I’m too worn out to do all that math.
Instead of taking on the responsibility to DO IT THEMSELVES (like, by enforcing “USE TAX” laws) they are foisting the work and expense onto individual people. I.E., us VENDORS.
Too many people are too stupid to understand what is going to happen to SMALL BUSINESS should individual small business sellers be forced to collect and remit sales taxes in states where they do not have a presence. Small Business is the underlying cornerstone of every single local economy in the country. “They” have no clue it may well collapse. The entire tale is another version of killing the Goose who laid the Golden Eggs.