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1-States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.
2-The Supreme Court’s opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
The decisions made it more difficult for states to collect sales tax on certain online purchases.
3-The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer’s purchase to a state where the business didn’t have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office,the business didn’t have to collect sales tax for the state.
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Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren’t charged it,but most didn’t realize they owed it and few paid.
4-Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the previous decisions were flawed.
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