CJEU – Recent Developments in Value Added Tax 2018
1. Aufl. 2019
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S. 79US Experience and Recent Developments in the Collection of Tax on Online Sales
Walter Hellerstein
1. S. 81Introduction
Any discussion of the collection of tax on cross-border online sales in the United States must begin with a recognition of the significance of the US Supreme Court’s recent decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. In Wayfair, the Court dramatically expanded the states’ power to require remote suppliers to collect taxes on in-bound sales to local consumers by repudiating the pre-existing, judicially created constitutional rule limiting the states’ authority to enforce such collection obligations to those suppliers with an in-state physical presence. By replacing a constitutional “nexus” rule based entirely on physical presence with one based on “economic and virtual contacts,” the Court not only consigned much of the earlier “US experience” in the collection of tax on online sales to the dustbin of history, at least for those with no physical presence in a state, it also ushered in a new era of state law and practice explicitly embracing the states’ expanded powers to tax online sales.
This paper reflects the divide between the pre-Wayfair and the post-Wayfair world. The fi...