SCOTUS: States can charge sales tax for online shopping
This sucks. When I was doing taxes for 2017 I got a question about online purchases. So I entered a $ figure to fill the space that clearly wasn't zero.
This seems to be a rare time when SCOTUS overturns precedence.
- SCOTUS overturned a 1992 precedent barring states from requiring businesses with no "physical presence" in that state to collect sales taxes.
- The ruling is likely to lead other states to try to collect sales tax on purchases from out-of-state online businesses more aggressively.