More than six years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair that businesses could be required to collect sales taxes on behalf of states even if they had no physical presence in that state. That decision, while intended to help states collect revenue from online sales that they had been struggling to get ahold of, has created all kinds of tax compliance headaches that threaten to force tens of thousands of small businesses into shutting down operations due to the sheer paperwork burden. Fortunately, Congress — and specifically Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) — is starting to think about real, meaningful solutions to this longstanding issue.
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