Cracks in objections to Internet sales taxes

Taxes on Internet sales have been talked about since the birth of e-commerce. In those early Web days, one major objection was that taxes would be impossible to collect, given all the various local and state sales-tax regimes. Forcing merchants to adhere to the laws of thousands—or dozens if only state sales taxes are considered—of jurisdictions would have made it impossible for even the largest online store to do business. Developments in software and services have long since solved that problem.