The Marketplace Fairness Act

The Marketplace Fairness Act

One of the many perks of online shopping, the lack of online sales tax, may soon be a thing of the past as the Marketplace Fairness Act, an official Senate Bill, is on its way to the House of Representatives. As of 1992, online retailers have only been required to collect sales tax from consumers that live in the state where the online store has a “physical presence”. However, tension was slowly mounting as smaller businesses tried to keep up with the many perks the online world offered.

Retailers on the web slowly began to push … Read the rest