E-commerce > More on Sales Tax and Online Shopping
Following up on my post about high sales tax influencing shoppers to go online, Chip Taylor points to this study by Austan Goolsbee. It concludes that sales tax does encourage online shopping, and includes this warning: "The magnitudes in the paper suggest that applying existing sales taxes to Internet commerce might reduce the number of online buyers by up to 24 percent."
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