Digital News Daily – States Can Force Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax, Supreme Court Rules
The legal battle over South Dakota’s law drew the attention of numerous outside groups, including the American Booksellers Association, which supported the law, and NetChoice, which opposed it.
The American Booksellers Association argued in a friend-of-the-court brief that the court’s 1992 decision threatens independent bookstores. But NetChoice — which counts eBay, Google, and Facebook among its members — argued that requiring retailers to collect tax in every state and local jurisdiction in the U.S. would harm small companies.