Sales Tax On Online Purchases Hot Topic Again

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It has been exactly five years this month since my last column on efforts to charge sales tax on Internet retail purchases. And that column came five years after the last one.

That just proves what I've learned over more than a quarter- century in this business. A lot of issues never get resolved. They reappear whenever circumstances make them convenient, or when government is in need of money. That is especially true in this case.

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Sales Tax On Online Purchases Hot Topic Again

A decade ago, Internet shopping was a novelty sprouting wings. State and local governments looked at the figures, projected them out and said that by 2003, governments nationwide would b...

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