Missouri Remote Sales Tax in Focus as Pandemic Hits Revenue (2)

A group of lawmakers in Missouri is hopeful that the havoc Covid-19 is wreaking on the state budget will convince their counterparts that it’s time, at long last, to require tax collection and remittance on remote sales.

Missouri and Florida are the only states so far to not impose a sales tax on online transactions, since the Supreme Court’s seminal 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair ruling tossed out the physical presence standard the court had affirmed in its 1992 Quill Corp. v. North Dakota ruling, which limited the ability of states to tax remote sales.

Securing extra revenue was ...