Dale40203 About a month or so ago the Supreme Court revisited their previous decision and ruled any state with an in state Sales & Use tax could collect their sales tax on stuff purchased and being shipped to an out of state entity. Most states that have Sales & Use taxes "required" you to send in the Tax Due with your income tax; a MA tax examiner in MA doing an audit of our small company told me that that line was the shortest line in government (:<((. The small retailers have been crying about this out of state purchases for years so a revision was not unexpected. I believe unless you are making a pretty expensive purchase; I don't think it is a killer because you still get the free freight at over $50, and I can always find an ink cartridge to add, but NY's tax @ 8.0% (I think) on a large purchase is enough to make you think about if you are near a no tax state
Personally, I don't think the change will make much difference to the small retailers unless they can meet the prices their larger competitors offer. Except possibly for the expensive items, I suspect most of us will continue to use the sellers we have learned to trust.

No business “charges” sales tax - they just collect the tax where required by law to do so. Evidently Kentucky has modified its laws to require out of state vendors to collect tax on items sold to and delivered to persons who reside in Kentucky. More and more states are doing so - and rightfully so. States are losing tax revenue that is needed by the state as well as local governments to carry out services needed in the community- not to mention the damage done to small local businesses (and their employees) as people shop out of area to skip out on taxes which they should be paying.