House reboots online sales tax bill
The Maine House gave approval in a 128-10 vote Friday to a bill requiring online retailers to collect Maine sales tax.
The Bangor Daily News reported the latest bill aims to capture an estimated $25 million the state is losing in uncollected taxes, largely from online retailers.
The bill would extend the same sales tax collection requirements that apply to bricks-and-mortar stores to online retailers and would allow legislative staff to conduct a study outlining how Maine could comply with a national effort — called the Marketplace Fairness Act — to tax online sales.
Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a similar bill in late May that would have authorized Maine Revenue Services to conduct that study. LePage then said he objected to using state resources for the study and preferred a federal solution.
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