NW News Network – Online Sales Tax That Undergirds Washington Budget Likely To Be Challenged
But can the state really count on that? The director of NetChoice, a trade association for Internet companies, said his team is actively developing legal arguments and lining up funding to challenge the tax expansion.
NetChoice has battled state tax collectors for more than a decade.
“We have an excellent track record of challenging laws,” NetChoice Executive Director Steve DelBianco said in an interview Wednesday.
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DelBianco argued the imposition of the internet sales tax would place “an undue burden on interstate commerce” and could “boomerang” back on home state e-commerce businesses if it inspires other states to tax their cross-border sales.