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State’s Internet Sales Tax Law Confuses Some Retailers

Posted on 03 February 2012.

Either Pennsylvania’s online sales tax law – the start of which has been pushed back until Sept. 1 (2012) – will cost the state $22 million in revenue because Internet-based companies won’t do business here, as tax opponents claim; or it will add $380 million to the treasury over several years, as tax backers say. Different sides tell different stories, according to The Pennsylvania Independent online news service. |


HARRISBURG – Out-of-state retailers will not collect sales tax on goods they sell online to Pennsylvania residents until Sept. 1, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. The clarification in the Pennsylvania tax law has spooked several advertisers into terminating their agreements with Pennsylvania publishers in December.

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