Washington, D.C., September 14 – This afternoon, Reps. Reps. Sensenbrenner, Eshoo, Duncan, and Lofgren introduced the Online Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act of 2018. This legislation is a response to the chaos caused by the June-2018 Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair.
The Court overturned decades of legal precedent and put small business owners at the mercy of all out-of-state sales tax collectors, covering more than 12,000 local tax jurisdictions.
Below, please find a statement from Steve DelBianco of NetChoice regarding the introduction of HR 6824 this afternoon:
“The U.S. Congress has the Constitutional role of protecting interstate commerce. Reps. Sensenbrenner, Eshoo, Duncan, and Lofgren are to be commended for stepping into the breach created when the U.S. Supreme Court erased 60 years of settled law that restrained state tax collectors from reaching across their borders.
America’s small businesses cannot survive under the complex burdens and audit risks from 46 different state sales tax regimes. HR 6824 incentivizes all states to significantly simplify their sales tax systems.”