'Now Comes the Interesting Part' With Online Sales Tax Collections

Route Fifty: For many state and local governments that depend heavily on sales tax revenues, the U.S. Supreme Court decision last week giving states greater leeway to collect taxes on retail sales made by out-of-state online vendors was a welcome development.

But the court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. has also left complicated questions in its wake. Like what the specifics of new state policies could look like, whether Congress will take action, and how companies that sell goods online will react.

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