Collecting sales tax on out of state internet purchases makes perfect sense - as long as the tax goes back to the community (zip code) that the purchase was made from.
Throughout the US, rural communities have been devastated as local businesses, unable to compete with large corporations and internet sales, have lost a large amount of their sales tax base. This is so even though existing sales tax law requires residents to keep track of and pay sales tax on out of state online purchases. It's just that nobody does it.
Drive through any small community and you can see the decay. Collecting this sales tax on online purchases and sending it back to the community where the purchase was made from can transform rural America and bring new life to it. Again, it makes perfect sense.
Last edited by Carpe Diem; 06-02-2021 at 12:59 PM.
Reason: Because.
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