The estimate is an update to the 2009 study that was released by NCSL with the University of Tennessee and the Washington State Office of Financial Management.
Taken together, ICSC and NCSL’s findings indicate by 2015 it is estimated that total U.S. uncollected sales and use taxes have increased to almost $26 billion. This translates to states losing 13% more than what was estimated for 2012.
"The need to close the online sales tax loophole has never been greater,” said Jennifer Platt, ICSC’s Vice President of Federal Operations, who leads the industry coalition of efairness. “This $26 billion figure is incredibly conservative as it includes the assumption that Amazon collected sales tax on online purchases in every state in 2015.”
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