Industry celebrates one year since Supreme Court’s landmark e-fairness ruling

June 20, 2019
By Edmund Mander Director, Editor-In-Chief/SCT - ICSC online

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s momentous South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., decision, marking the culmination of ICSC’s decades-long effort to reform sales-tax collection in the U.S. by creating parity for all sellers.

Over some 20 years and roughly 40 congressional hearings, ICSC led a coalition of groups in the campaign and laid the groundwork for a legal challenge, submitting amicus briefs in support of South Dakota’s economic-nexus law. Since that decision a year ago, ICSC has worked at the state level to encourage equal treatment of all transactions, regardless of where they take place. Today 42 of the 45 states that have a sales tax have passed a post-Wayfair collection requirement. All eyes are now on Florida, Kansas and Missouri to join the rest of the states in modernizing their remote-tax-collection regimes to reflect today’s marketplace. “We are proud of the work we have done to level the playing field for all sellers,” said Jennifer Platt, ICSC’s vice president of federal operations. “This is one of the most important policy wins for the industry, and we will continue our work in this area to make sure the Supreme Court ruling stands.”