Supreme Court ruled that online sales should be taxed. It’s still not implemented well. Online-only sellers continue to avoid collecting or paying sales tax whereas businesses with operations in-state must collect taxes. Let’s look at an example product: If you buy from Walmart, this is what happens: 1) Walmart gets $106.67 2) Government
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Finally Supreme Court corrected itself. Online businesses should never have been exempted from collecting sales tax based on physical presence or nexus test. Many people shop online precisely to avoid taxes just as the advertisement by Wayfair Inc mentioned. Wayfair was selling tax avoidance as a benefit of shopping online. Amazon doesn’t collect sales tax