Retail Group Drops Ohio ‘Cookie’ Sales Tax Suit, For Now

A major representative of interstate retailers is dropping its challenge against an Ohio law that could force some of its out-of-state members to collect and remit the state’s sales tax.

At least for now.

The American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) voluntarily withdrew its complaint against the Ohio Department of Taxation Dec. 18. Association president and executive director Hamilton Davison told Bloomberg Tax in a Dec. 19 email that the retailers are going to “wait and see” whether the state moves to expand its taxing authority. At issue are what constitutes physical presence in a state and companies’ “exonomic nexus” with ...