AFAIK, you are not required to collect taxes unless you have a "presence" in the state. That is usually interpreted to mean some sort of "brick and mortar" facility. Once you start collecting taxes for a government entity, you are then subject to periodic audits, not just state, but municipality. To the best of my knowledge, there is no tax package available today that can correctly calculate tax for every address in the country. These suggestions for new taxes are simply unworkable with the present tax situation.
I'm not so sure. Try ordering something online from Dell or Intuit (a couple that come to mind). They will charge your local sales tax and the only way to talk them out of it is to present them with a valid reseller's certificate (state-issued sales tax license).
Whether or not they're calculating it correctly in every taxing jurisdiction I dunno. But they are undaunted.
Hopefully they're actually sending this collected money to the appropriate revenue agency in your state. There have been some companies prosecuted for *not* doing this (i.e. they pocketed it).
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