Shop Talk: Letters to the Editor

So now the question is that a brick-and-mortar retailer is collecting and remitting a sales tax to the taxing jurisdiction for that location, not for the location of the consumer's home address, which could have been in a different taxing jurisdiction. One approach to keep the remittance of sales tax simple is to have out-of-state retailers collect and pay the sales tax for their physical location. Of course that would have many mail order companies moving to states with no sales tax. A uniform national sales tax and other suggestions have been floated, with none gaining much traction with direct marketers.