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by porterhaney 5359 days ago
These laws certainly will not help e-commerce shops, sales will decrease (or more likely continue to increase across the industry but not at such a rapid rate) because the e-comms will now be on a level playing field with brick and mortars.

All of this being said, the biggest problem will be simplicity. If there is not a service to easily distill all of these rules and plug into the bulk of shopping experiences (magento, atg, ep, shopify, etc) this will very much hurt small, up&coming e-comms.

I'd imagine there is very good opportunity for a company to create an API of all of this tax information and monetize it.

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I'd imagine there is very good opportunity for a company to create an API of all of this tax information and monetize it.

I hope that doesn't happen. If the government is imposing this burden, there should be a free database available for everyone to allow compliance.