I'm not torn about this. If this passes the House, they have now put a cap on every small business in the country. Any who dare reach for a million dollars in sales will now have to think twice about if that's a good idea or not. It takes about 25 minutes to handle all the digital paperwork for filing California sales taxes for our business, and each time it is done at a loss, not only in time, but also in money, as our business pays high fees for transactions, and that includes the money collected for sales taxes.
To do that for each tax jurisdiction? Won't do it. Can't even come close to affording spending two days filling out sales tax paperwork. So if our sales reach $995,000, we will shut down for the year, everyone goes home until the next year.
Every new law creates yet another hurdle for small business to grow into a large business. The amount of regulation that hits a business that reaches 50 employees is massive now, and absolutely no incentive to grow past that point. So let's call these laws what they REALLY are: Protectionist laws to keep others from growing enough to compete.
At the core, that's what this really is. Amazon's big enough to absorb these costs (even though they rarely post a profit.) So is Apple, so are others. But they and the senate just emptied the bleachers of competition. Marketplace fairness for already big business who feared competition from below.
Or push for enforcement on the individual level (which is also a good idea).
Thing is it is against the law now. Rather than say it is our right to violate the law, fix the law.