Those retailers may face headaches complying with various state sales tax laws.

这些零售商可能会面临如何遵守各州不同销售税法的令人头疼的问题。

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Lawyers have been torturing the term as 21 states over the past three years of budget pain considered whether and how to force retailers (most notably Amazon) to collect sales tax.

在再过去的三年中，有21个州一边考虑支出预算，一边想着怎么怎样迫使零售商 （特别是亚马逊）缴纳销售税。 于是律师们一直在折磨着“关系”这个术语。

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By not collecting sales tax, Internet retailers such as Amazon had a real price advantage over California's small businesses, such as booksellers, which have a physical presence in the state.

如果免征消费税，在加利福尼亚州，像亚马逊这类的网络零售商与拥有实体店的其它小型企业例如书店相比，确实存在价格优势。

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It would authorize states that have simplified their sales tax regulations to require all retailers to collect sales tax.

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The best way to recover the lost sales tax revenue is to require all online retailers to collect sales tax, regardless of nexus.

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Having Internet retailers collect sales tax is long overdue and still needs a vote by the U.S. House to become law.

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