Sales Tax for online orders

When I saw this thread, the first thing I did was check the date.  I thought it was from over 10 years ago.  Not sure where you guys are buying stuff, but online sales tax, at least for me, has been going on for many, many years.  Hardly a new phenomenon.  

@dweller paying sales tax on cars is the same as paying tax on anything else you purchase in your own state

also if you paid the sales tax on a out of state purchsae you get a credit for that on the purchase of a car

I've also been an Amazon customer since they started up; I don't know about other states, but in California, they didn't use to collect sales tax for out of state purchases, but that after being sued by the state, I believe, they changed this and they've charged sales taxes for many years now.

For many years, there was a federal law that prohibited taxation on the internet, and after a lot of complaints from the states, the law was no longer in force.  That's been true for almost 20 years.

I find that most stores charge sales tax, but here and there smaller companies won't charge sales tax.  But they are in the small minority.