It's Time to Prepare for Internet Sales Tax

The Gartner research group has issued a warning that the current freeze on Internet sales taxes is temporary at best and that businesses involved in e-commerce should begin now to prepare themselves for the inevitable.

Predicting that sales taxes on Internet sales will become a reality by 2003, the group suggests that it's not a matter of whether items will be taxed, it's a matter of when and how much.

Gartner recommends [1] that businesses begin planning to accommodate sales taxes by improving their online business model so that it will be able to comply with state tax codes.