States Plot New Path to Tax Online Retailers... Affiliates must diversify...

This article has more information on this from the lawmaker's side.

Streamlined Sales Tax

For over five years, states have been working together to develop "a sales and use tax system that radically simplifies sales and use taxes" as noted in the mission statement of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project Organized in March 2000, the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP) objective is to simplify and modernize sales and use tax collection and administration in the United States.

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