Sales Tax: When ‘Animal Farm’ Meets the Metaphysical World of the Internet

The debate boils down to commercial interests: physical businesses want online sellers to be subject to the same taxes they pay, and e-commerce companies want to keep their advantage. For businesses on the brick-and-mortar side, it's an "Animal Farm" situation where some businesses are more equal than others. For online sellers, the internet has been a loosely regulated frontier for so long and it seems unjust to suddenly change that. Still for others, the internet has been a loosely regulated frontier for too long, and it seems unjust to not change that.