The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that could have a dramatic impact on American retailers, and not only those who primarily operate on the Internet. In what has been called the Wayfair sales tax case, the court on June 21, 2 018 said that states can impose sales taxes on businesses even if they do not have a physical presence in the state. The ruling effectively overturns Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, which was a Supreme Court decision handed down in 1992. In that case, the court said that the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution forbids states from imposing sales tax
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