The Direct Marketing Association finds itself at odds with the new Colorado reporting and noticing requirements for non-collecting vendors.
Looks like these guys are going legal on the Centennial state (from the linked fact sheet):
“DMA and its members are filing suit against the state of Colorado in Federal Court. DMA will act as the plaintiff so that no one business has to feel the brunt of any recourse from the Colorado Department of Revenue. DMA is acting now and you need to as well. Tennessee and California are considering similar legislation and others will soon follow.”
Here is a post on the Cali Bill (with an update, see update #2) and here is a post on Oklahoma’s new reporting regulations that only partially mirror the Colorado regs.
See here for prior post on the CO regs at issue here.
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This will be interesting to follow as there are several potential issues with these new laws…(1) the reporting function for the out-of-state retailer will often be more burdensome than the collection responsibility – by requiring only out-of-state retailers to adhere to the reporting requirement this could easily be considered “discriminatory”. (2) there could be First Amendment issues by compelling the out-of-state retailer to disclose more information than necessary.
I can’t seem to look at this page from my iphone!!!!