Legal Concerns for Catalogers ’07: Lawyers Outline Key Use-tax, Gift Card Issues

Key Gift Card Legal Issues

Eisenstein discussed some of the legal challenges facing the growing gift card market. And it is a growing market: He cited a National Retail Federation report that during the holiday 2006 season, gift card spending jumped 50 percent to $27.8 billion over holiday ’05. The whole gift card market is about $40 billion, 20 percent of which is purchased online.