JohnSwanda wrote:
If Kentucky is like most states with sales tax, you have been required all along to pay a use tax, which is the same as the sales tax, on out of state purchases, and you've been evading that tax. It's difficult for states to enforce the use tax, which is why they wanted the out of state merchants to collect it and now that is the law.
I don't know of any state in which you have to pay sales tax but you don't have to pay use tax when buying out of state. It's just that before they couldn't enforce it.