Dan Dixon is certain that state revenue authorities will soon start up more ambitious efforts to tax online commerce.
How does he know this? Well, for starters he is a state tax attorney at Reed Smith LLP and hears about back room deliberations in various state government offices. Then there this this, he says: his mother has recently become aware that Apple offers cloud services. She saw it on TV. “When companies like Apple start promoting the cloud to every day consumers on television, that tends to get the attention of state tax officials.”
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