BNA Bloomberg – Massachusetts Online ‘Cookie’ Tax Rule Faces Legal Fight

Steve DelBianco, president and CEO of NetChoice, a lobbying group for e-commerce companies such as Facebook.com Inc., PayPal Inc., and eBay Inc., said the lawsuit “relies on an existing Virginia law designed to protect Virginia businesses from the reach of a tax collector from a state where the business has no physical presence whatsoever–which is exactly what Massachusetts is trying to do.”

“If the Virginia court finds that Crutchfield lacks physical presence in Massachusetts, all of us can re-focus on helping Congress to design appropriate national legislation to address sales tax on remote sellers,” he told Bloomberg Tax Oct. 25.