States are exploring a variety of methods to improve their collection of tax revenues from purchases made by their residents from out-of-state online and mail-order retailers.
There have been recent and important changes in two states to the sales/use tax laws covering online and mail-order retailers marketing into those states.
On November 4, 2010, the Appellate Division (1st Department) of the New York State Supreme Court issued an opinion in the so-called Amazon Tax case.
On August 26, 2010, the Oklahoma Tax Commission enacted emergency regulations under state law HB 2359, a new law that includes sales tax obligations for out-of-state retailers, which went into effect on July 1, 2010.