But opponents of online sales tax legislation have long said that those sorts of estimates far overstate the amount of sales taxes left on the table — and this time is no different, said Steve DelBianco of NetChoice. DelBianco came up with a far skinnier figure — at most $11.6 billion in uncollected sales, extrapolating from 2015 data that suggests around $23.2 billion in total sales taxes were due on online purchases, and one could conservatively assume that around half of that was collected.
Posted 04/3/2017
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