Get the ‘Wayfair’ Spirit or Risk Tax Lawsuits, State Group Hears

This week in state tax news: Several large states, including California and New York, could find themselves in legal jeopardy for failing to conform to the spirit of the Supreme Court’s Wayfair ruling on sales taxes, attorneys warned. Meanwhile, Delaware confronted high court skepticism in a case involving unclaimed property.

What’s ahead for states demanding remote retailers collect and remit potentially billions of dollars of fugitive sales taxes? Litigation, at least in the roughly two dozen states that haven’t fully conformed to the logic in the Supreme Court’s landmark 2018 ...