The problem is that sales tax laws are not uniform across all of the states and if companies were required to collect sales tax for every state they shipped to, it would take a massive amount of people to do so because they would have to make sure the correct tax is being collected for every place they shipped to.

I have experienced this a little bit in my own state. Paypal and eBay only allow me to set a fixed state tax amount for the states that I am required to collect tax in. Unfortunately, I am also required to collect county tax which I am unable to do with the tools offered. Since I don’t ship a lot within my state, I have just ate the small county tax every year. If I have shipped more, I would have been in real trouble.

Hmm, I think I’ll do some math and write a hub or lens about it. Maybe both. States need to realize the revenue they’d be losing without this income. Companies aren’t going to conform, they’re just going to cut off the affiliates.

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