[rmlew]

The alternative to no tax is 50 state taxes and multiple local taxes, which will make overhead unreasonable for online sales? If I have a company in NYC and sell to a customer California, which sale's tax do I charge? That of NY State and NYC, Californias, both? If it is to be based on the loication of the buyer, there is no way small companies can comply without losing a lot of money.

There only logical outcome is one of two methods of determining sales taxes :
1) A national sales tax
2) Basing sales tax on the location of the seller.

[SunkenCiv]

well put.