The days of tax-free online shopping could finally be numbered. The Senate is planning to vote on a bill as soon as Monday that would give states the authority to collect sales taxes on all Internet purchases, handing local governments as much as $11 billion per year in added revenue that they are legally owed — but that hasn’t been paid to them for years.
Senate Planning Vote On Internet Sales Tax Bill
Jia Lynn Yang, Washington Post
Sun, 04/21/2013 - 10:40am
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