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6/28/2005

Sales Taxes May Be Coming to Internet

06/28/2005 | Filed under: Updated eBiz News — site admin @ 3:50 am

A California state appeals court late last month found Borders the online arm of bookseller Borders Group, liable for $167,000 in taxes from April 1998 to September 1999, because it had commingled operations of its online subsidiary and its stores in that state.

Does this mean that we will now be expected to pay sales tax on online purchases?

Scott L. Brandman, a lawyer whose firm represented Borders in the California case, said the courts decision could be used by states to reach out to new levels they havent reached out to before



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