Who Pays the Bell fo Internet Shopping?

Foing to the mall may soon go out of style. These days more and more people are shopping from home over the Internet. In 1999 electronic commerce took in approximately 18 billion from dhoppers: by 2002 that amount is expected to be 76 billion or more. These numbers are good news for the online stores and for online shoppers, who can anticipate increasing variety in e-commerece offerings. But because taxes are not collected on Internet sales as they are on purchases in almost allstates, online stores comete unfairly with traditional stores, and shoppers with In...