BNA Bloomberg – Ohio ‘Cookie Nexus’ for Online Sales Tax Likely to Crumble
NetChoice and the American Catalog Mailers Association “are researching legal arguments and raising funds to challenge Ohio’s new remote sales tax law,” Steve DelBianco, executive director of internet commerce trade group NetChoice, told Bloomberg BNA through email. “If the state has violated Supreme Court precedent and the Internet Tax Freedom Act, we look forward to our day in court. Moreover, we don’t see how a court will agree that electrons flowing into a computer or smartphone can possibly create a ‘physical presence.’”
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NetChoice and ACMA recently sued and prevailed on procedural grounds against a similar Massachusetts directive. That directive worked in a similar way to create a tax based on physical presence in the state proven by cookies installed on computers or phones.