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by potater 4789 days ago
To that end it's also a data problem. Getting 100% accurate unique identifiers like UPC, MPN or ISBN for such items can be a challenge for online retailers. Also the notion of smaller retailers who fall under this legislation having to (pay someone to) modify their systems to support these third party services to calculate the collect tax is also kind of a bummer.

These issues are mostly resolvable with time and money. Regardless, the transition is going to be rough, in my view.