The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released New York’s “Amazon Law”: An Important Tool for Collecting Taxes Owed on Internet Purchases, by Michael Mazerov:
The inability to collect all sales taxes that are legally due on purchases made over the Internet costs states billions of dollars a year in lost revenue. In 2008, New York State enacted an innovative law that helps to address this problem. Rhode Island adopted a similar measure this year. All states with sales taxes should give serious consideration to doing so as well.
