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Originally Posted by Northerner52
How can states reach to out of state businesses?
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Back in 1999 this was not a problem. We were living in Virginia and made an online purchase from a furniture company in North Carolina. We were not aware we would have to pay sales tax because it was not done in the other states we lived in.
Two years after we left Virginia, we received a dunning letter from Virginia, saying we owed sales taxes on the table that we purchased in NC via the Internet. They said it was delivered to us in VA and therefore we had to pay the sales tax. If we had driven to NC to pick up the table, we would not have had to pay the VA sales tax although we would have to pay the NC tax.