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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2018
Supreme Court to hear sales tax collection case
By JESSICA GRESKO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court agreed Friday
to wade into the issue of sales
tax collection on internet pur-
chases in a case that could
force consumers to pay more
for certain purchases and
allow states to recoup what
they say is billions in lost rev-
enue annually.
Under previous Supreme
Court rulings, when internet
retailers don’t have a physical
presence in a state, they can’t
be forced to collect sales tax
on sales into that state. Con-
sumers who purchase from
out-of-state retailers are gen-
erally supposed to pay the
state taxes themselves, but
few do. A total of 36 states
and the District of Columbia
had asked the high court to
revisit the issue.
Large brick-and-mortar
retailers like Walmart and
Target have long bemoaned
the fact that they have to col-
lect sales tax on online pur-
chases because they have
physical stores nationwide.
Meanwhile, smaller online
retailers, who don’t have
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Brick-and-mortar stores have complained for years about the unequal tax treatment for
some online retailers.
vast networks of stores, don’t
have to collect the tax where
they don’t have a physical
presence.
Internet giant Amazon.
com fought for years against
collecting sales tax but now
does so nationwide, though
third-party sellers on its
site make their own deci-
sions. But the case before the
Supreme Court does directly
affect other online retailers,
including
Overstock.com,
home goods company Way-
fair and electronics retailer
Newegg, who are part of the
case the court accepted.
States say the court’s pre-
vious rulings have also hurt
them. According to one esti-
mate cited by the states in a
brief they filed with the high
court, they’ll lose out on
nearly $34 billion in 2018 if
the Supreme Court’s previ-
ous rulings stand. The Gov-
ernment
Accountability
Office, which provides non-
partisan reports to Congress,
wrote in a report last year that
state and local governments
would have been able to gain
between $8.5 billion and $13
billion in 2017 if they could
require out-of-state sellers to
collect tax on sales into the
state. All but five states —
including Oregon — charge a
sales tax.
The Supreme Court first
adopted its physical pres-
ence rule on sales tax collec-
tion in a case dealing with
catalog retailers in 1967, a
year that states pointed out
in their brief was “two years
before the moon landing
and decades before” the first
online retail transaction. The
high court last considered the
issue in 1992.
The National Retail Feder-
ation, which represents both
internet and brick-and-mor-
tar sellers, said Friday it wel-
comed the Supreme Court’s
decision to take the case.
“Unfortunately, antiquated
sales tax collection rules have
resulted in an uneven play-
ing field that’s making it
harder for Main Street retail-
ers to compete in today’s dig-
ital economy. This is a basic
question about fairness,
which all of our members
deserve whether they’re sell-
ing in stores or online,” feder-
ation president Matthew Shay
said in a statement.
The case the Supreme
Court agreed to hear Friday
comes from South Dakota,
which has no state income
tax and relies on retail sales
and use taxes for revenue. In
2016, South Dakota lawmak-
ers passed a law requiring
out-of-state sellers to collect
and turn over sales tax to the
state. The state’s highest court
struck down the law, cit-
ing previous Supreme Court
decisions.
Overstock.com said in a
statement Friday that it “looks
forward to the opportunity to
convince the Supreme Court
to confirm its prior rulings
protecting the free flow of
interstate commerce from
overreaching state tax laws.”
The Supreme Court will
probably hear arguments in
the case in April.
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