Forgot to mention that a Use tax should be deemed unconstitutional and completely unnecessary if they would just get their heads out of the sand and actually put them together. If each state is collecting from all eligible purchases made within their state (whether directly or indirectly), then where would the need be for a use tax in any state because the customer is paying the tax?

Furthermore, if a merchant (collecting only for their own state) isn’t required to collect sales tax within their own state, then their customer shouldn’t have to pay a tax to any state. As it is now, I’m not required to collect for any state, yet, my customers are being charged sales tax on certain sites. What’s worse is that it’s being counted as my own income when it’s not and I have no way to prove where that extra money went because I didn’t have anything at all to do with the sales tax process being applied to my own business.

Seriously? Come on, folks…get with the program!

It would benefit the states just as well, but in a much simpler and fairer manner that allows each state to remain in control over its own sales tax. By allowing merchants to continue collecting for and remitting to one state, there wouldn’t be a need for expensive third-party solutions because merchants wouldn’t be much, if anymore burdened by the new requirements.

It would also completely do away with any confusion over what is and isn’t taxable for each state or any other varying sales tax laws. Of course, since they will be collecting on a lot more purchases, they should account for the excess by adjusting the filing requirements (ie, upping the number/amount of sales).

Why do they always have to make things so difficult?

I would be happy to report this, with proof, to any congressional committee. I do have invoice copes from Etsy that list the taxes that were collected. I manually go through them & itemize these taxes. But I do not have proof that Etsy paid those taxes. They are not required to provide this.