LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: Each year, Pennsylvania misses out on an estimated $345 million in uncollected sales tax it’s owed from residents’ Internet and catalog purchases…
State officials plan to add a line to individual tax returns next year reminding residents to report the total value of taxable Internet and other purchases in which they weren’t charged the state’s 6 percent sales tax, and to pony up. Based on similar initiatives in other states, Pennsylvania expects to collect about $5 million to $6 million.…
It’s not a new law, said Mark Ryan, executive director of the Senate Finance Committee, which has mulled ways to address the Internet sales tax issue, but has no legislation pending. State taxpayers have always been required to report and pay uncollected sales tax, which is called “use tax.”… (more)
