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Businesses face mapping and reporting challenges as towns consider local-option taxes
Summary
The Vermont tax department told the Senate Transportation committee that destination-based collection, PO-box mapping, ZIP-code mismatch, and aggregated ecommerce returns complicate revenues estimation and compliance for towns considering local-option taxes.
Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Samraoff told the Senate Transportation committee that technical and data issues complicate both applying and estimating local-option taxes for municipalities.
Samraoff said local-option taxes are destination-based — "tax is due, you know, where the consumer takes possession of the item" — which raises implementation questions for deliveries and PO boxes. The tax department worked with the Vermont Center for Geographic Information (VCGI) to add PO-box handling to its online rate-and-boundary lookup tool because USPS town-name…
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