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by dragonwriter 2927 days ago
It's very simple how it would be handled:

(1) very large organizations with retail over a wide area as a core business focus would handle relations with taxing jurisdictions directly as a central function.

(2) medium scale organizations would outsource tax compliance to specialized vendors that would handle it.

(3) very small organizations would either do the same as medium orgs (assuming vendors handle them) or just not sell into many jurisdictions.

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Agree lots of people here are overly sensational. In the most basic terms it simply consists of getting somethig like avalara, configuring it correcrtly and then avalara does the rest. No different than setting up quickbooks. Yet people here make it sound like it is the end of the world.

Truth be told most here are just mad that their online sales tax loophole is getting closed.

3 would be a source of political pressure for those jurisdictions to simplify tax compliance.