I'm retired now. But I had a specialty contracting firm that mainly installed and serviced BAS and EMS systems in NY. Our offices were in NYC and all our employees worked out of NY. However, we had customers in NJ. So when we did work there, we billed them including NJ sales tax which I reimbursed to NJ having to file NJ State Sales Tax forms. If I recall correctly, it was on a quarterly basis, but it could be monthly if the sales tax was over a certain limit. I had both NJ and NJ Certificates of Sales Tax that allowed me to collect sales tax in both states even though my company had no physical presence in NJ. It would not have been legal to do my work in NJ without it.
I can only report how I and other's did business (24 years on NM, 15 in CA) in terms of the collection of sales tax and how long it takes/took. Therefore this statement today and in the past isn't the case:
But if another state, let's say 25 states, where you sent your products out requires paperwork too, the time you'd have to work at it will go up considerably. IF another state let's say 25 states where I sent my products/did my services required XYZ paper work, and they don't, that comment might have a leg to stand on assuming I was doing this on a paper ledger. I'm simply telling you how this stuff works today and has for 35 years in TWO states.
And no, I'm not an internet or mall company, I'm a company that did business in two states and in terms of the collection of sales tax, I only need to report that income to the state I do business in. I could NOT avoid paying sales tax for supples like Polaroid, film etc, because that was part of what I '
manufactured' but that has nothing to do with collecting and paying sales tax, rather what goods I can purchase without paying sales tax. IF I do work for an out of state company, I do not bill, collect or pay sales tax. IF I were required to do this, it would
still take 5 minutes to have my banking program print out a report AND fill out the form for me, twice a year!
What MAY happen in the future, I cannot predict. It will still take the banking application mere seconds to draw up a report (I have templates, I simply enter date ranges). So there's no need to look at what SCOTUS did and place a political slant via FUD about what may happen in the future and how much time you assume it will take to report sales tax. 2 or 25 or all 50 states, it is still going to be, for me, a 5 minute operation.