Business Insider: The Trump Org Just Quietly Announced It Is Collecting Sales Tax in a New State

New York’s addition to the list of states where TrumpStore.com collects sales tax, which previously included Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, was first spotted Thursday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank.

“Refusing to collect sales tax in New York was a risky move, and it’s not surprising that they’ve reversed course,” Carl Davis, research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Business Insider in an email. “But there are still dozens of states where they’re refusing to collect, and that’s a bad sign for the fairness and enforceability of sales taxes in all of those states.”

“This raises obvious questions about why they weren’t collecting the tax already,” he continued. “It’s unlikely that their business structure suddenly changed so much that they’re just now coming within reach of New York sales tax collection laws for the first time. Read more

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