E-Commerce Sales Taxing Your Compliance and Financial Systems?

When e-commerce was in its infancy, jurisdictional regulations offered some organizations an opportunity to leverage their corporate structure and deliver goods and services to certain buyers without a sales tax imposition.

By contrast, most retailers are viewed as having a substantial presence due to brick-and-mortar store locations or other measures of the law that require tax calculation as an integral part of the checkout process. Even those online retailers who don’t have the requirement to collect sales tax today most likely need to have a plan prepared should new legislation ultimately require sales tax collection.