Local businesses wanted this to create a level playing field years ago—in the early days of on-line shopping.
Now it is too late for them to get back the shoppers lost.
The convenience of on-line shopping will rule even with the sales taxes.
What I see happening is that states will be motivated to raise their sales taxes much higher to take advantage of the new ruling.
Time will tell.
Yep. This really won’t affect shoppers much. It will be a nightmare for online retailers. The only way to make it simple is to have some sort of brick and mortar presence in every state. This is similar to what Amazon already does.
It could even be a “proxy” address in an apartment building or something. But a small businessperson could not afford that.