WMKY – Kentucky Retailers: Extend Sales Tax To Online Purchases
Yet some of those sellers, such as Amazon.com, have set up operations in Kentucky and already fall under the sales tax requirement. And in cases where they haven’t, NetChoice executive director Steve DelBianco writes in the Wall Street Journal that “… there’s little evidence that retailers who do collect sales tax are losing significant sales to online retailers. For one thing, shipping and handling charges usually offset any tax avoided by online shoppers.”