New U.S. Sales Tax Regime For Internet Sellers?

morganew writes "As reported last week on Slashdot, States are pushing for new sales tax rules that would force Internet sellers to collect taxes for up to 7500 jurisdictions. Legislation has been introduced. The House Judiciary Committee held hearings today; here's CNet news on the bill, and here's a report (PDF link) on what it could mean to internet sellers."

Comments

International orders?

[grub]

Will this put US online sellers at a disadvantage to, say, Canadian ones for importing? For example an amazon.com order plus the taxes verses an amazon.ca order with shipping and the exchange rate differences?

Re:Death of eCommerce

[stratjakt]

The convenience, and ability to comparison shop by seeing prices from a few dozen retailers side by side for that new video card, is still there.

It still beats living in a town that has only Best Buy and a ridiculously overpriced little shop that sells second rate chinese hardware.

Even with tax and shipping I can get that Radeon 9800 almost 100 bucks cheaper online.