Uber Sales Tax Challenge Gets Wary Response From Georgia Judges

Two Georgia Court of Appeals judges at a hearing Wednesday chewed on Uber Technologies Inc.‘s arguments that the state should have collected $8.92 million in sales tax from drivers, not the app.

“Even though the driver doesn’t collect anything?” Judge Kenneth B. Hodges III asked Uber’s attorney. “Uber collects everything else and then distributes it to the driver, so wouldn’t it make more sense for Uber to collect it all?

That might make more sense, but it’s not what the taxicab regulation in place during the audit period of 2012-2015 said, Eric Tresh of Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP told ...