... Another direct victim is the traditional retailer; with the ITFA, the problem of online-offline balancing/trade-off cannot be neglected. The greater online activities are, the lower demand for offline goods will be bound to become. Without Internet taxes, people will have greater incentive to shop online, causing the offline retailers to lose market share to online firms and as a result they ... collect Internet taxes even if the ITFA does not exist. "Given the high costs associated with collecting and remitting use taxes under the current system, many executives argued that the costs o...

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