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The Streamlined Sales Tax Project ( SSTP ), first organized in March 2000, is intended to simplify and modernize sales and use tax collection and administration in the United States. It arose in response to efforts by Congress to permanently prohibit states from collecting sales tax on online commerce. Because such a ban would have serious ...

Amazon collects both state and local sales tax. Texas. In 2010, Texas sent a demand letter for $269 million in sales taxes that the state argues should have been collected and remitted for sales to Texas customers. This dollar amount covers uncollected taxes from December 2005 to December 2009 and also includes penalties and interest.

Tax-free shopping. Tax-free shopping (TFS) is the buying of goods in another country or state and obtaining a refund of the sales tax which has been collected by the retailer on those goods. [1] The sales tax may be variously described as a sales tax, goods and services tax (GST), value added tax (VAT), or consumption tax .

Aug. 11-13 is the sales tax holiday for school supplies in Texas, when residents can purchase certain items and avoid paying as much as 8.25% in sales tax. Fort Worth ISD kicks off the school year ...