Adding sales tax to online purchases is moving ahead in the U.S. Senate. The issue of taxing internet sales is getting strong support from Republicans and Democrats alike. The Senate could vote as ...

A proposed Internet sales tax that could see new life in Congress in coming weeks would cost U.S. online shoppers $24 billion in its first year, according to a study from an anti-tax group. Supporters ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 21 states have simplified how they collect taxes in hopes of recovering an estimated $20 billion in sales taxes that go uncollected by out-of-state online merchants every ...

County officials say the state's online sales tax law should remain as it is, notwithstanding a lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional and asserting that online retailers must pay conventional local ...

The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online. The Senate’s vote of 69-27 for the Marketplace Fairness ...

If less complexity, fewer loopholes and lower rates are the signposts of meaningful tax reform, the dubiously named Marketplace Fairness Act embodies the exact opposite. The act, introduced in both ...

NEW YORK -- Shopping online can be a way to find bargains while steering clear of crowds -- and sales taxes. But those tax breaks are starting to erode. With the recession pummeling states' budgets, ...

Deals pushing for the collection of online sales taxes — a <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/print-edition/2011/10/28/state-gop-sales-tax-reform.html ...

WASHINGTON — The day may be rapidly coming when O.C. Tanner and thousands of other businesses large and small are going to have to decide how to collect taxes on the online sale of their products. O.C ...

Just a few months ago, the giant retailer was filing lawsuits and dropping affiliates to combat states trying to charge online sales tax. Now, Amazon is on board. As states have struggled to find new ...

Some 300 years ago, Russian monarch Peter the Great had a problem. He wanted to modernize his country and that meant getting men to ditch their beards–a backwards and unclean symbol in his mind. So he ...