Comments on: The Growing List of States with Online Sales Tax Laws https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/04/01/the-growing-list-of-states-with-online-sales-tax-laws/ Ecommerce Industry News Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: cfrphoto https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/04/01/the-growing-list-of-states-with-online-sales-tax-laws/#comment-2260 Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:30:48 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=13474#comment-2260 A threshold of 200 retail sales should protect most small sellers from South Dakota but it is unlikely to exclude small sellers from California and other populous states. A seller of $10 items grossing $20,000 per year could easily cross the threshold if 10% of retail sales are to California buyers. The Wayfair threshold is unfair for populated states.

California population is almost 40 million while South Dakota is about 877,000, less than one million. The California to South Dakota population ratio is 45 to 1. If the Wayfair criteria had been weighted by population, the retail sales threshold would be 9,000, not 200. The hypothetical seller of $10 items would have to gross $90,000 in California instead of $2,000 to meet the criteria.

Unfortunately, lawyers do not seem to be required to understand arithmetic or simple logic.

]]> By: Monkposty https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/04/01/the-growing-list-of-states-with-online-sales-tax-laws/#comment-2254 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:22:23 +0000 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=13474#comment-2254 Sellers need to unite, picket, and get this supreme court decision repealed. It is asinine to force online sellers to pay other states taxes.

If someone in ohio goes to texas, that texas store doesn’t have to pay ohio taxes for that person.

This will eventually destroy all small business, as the tax laws will sooner or later target small and medium sellers directly.

FIGHT, RESIST.

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