Governors Seeking Internet Tax
Steve Schear
schear at lvcm.com
Sun Aug 5 09:15:26 PDT 2001
At 01:13 AM 8/5/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>I'm no expert on this -- in fact, I've studiously avoided becoming one
>on this -- but my understanding is that under the Quill decision,
>California can't force PennsylvaniaBooks.com to collect sales taxes on
>shipments to SF and remit it to the Calif tax collectors. (Without
>nexus, that is.)
>
>Ideally the guvs would like federal law to modify the Quill ruling.
So, they ARE asking Congress to try and circumvent that nasty 'ol Commerce
Clause. It should be interesting to see what Congress thinks it can
fashion th will pass SC muster.
steve
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