I’m the taxman..if you walk on the sidewalk I’ll tax your feet..’cause I’m the taxman...
Nobody is going to pay shipping/handling charges AND sales tax on top of that.
If everyone charges sales tax, then Internet shopping is dead.
(Besides which, taxing Internet sales between states is a tax on interstate commerce, which is forbidden by the Constitution.)
But it’s so lucrative that I don’t think the idiot legislatures will be able to keep their hands off it; which will kill the golden goose before it lays any more eggs.
A New York City company took over my company last year. If we make a trip to corporate headquarters for ONE day we must file a New York State tax return and pay taxes to New York for the ONE day.