Allow online sellers to collect sales tax in US states: NRF

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Urging the US Government to recognise the evolution of the retail industry in the last 25 years,the National Retail Federation (NRF) has urged the Congress to pass a law allowing states to mandate online sellers to collect sales tax in the same manner as brick-and-mortar stores do rather than continuing to leave the issue to state courts’ discretion.

Refusing to allow out-of-state sellers to collect sales tax, the South Dakota supreme court recently ruled against a 2016 state law requiring online merchants with more than $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions with state residents to collect sales tax.

The ruling is in line with a 1992 US supreme court decision, which held that online sellers can only be required to collect sales tax in states where they have a Allow online sellers to collect sales tax in US states: NRF
and specialty stores, main street merchants, grocers, wholesalers, chain restaurants and Internet retailers from the United States and more than 45 countries. physical presence, such as a store, office or a warehouse. NRF is the world’s largest retail trade association, representing discount and department stores, home goods