How does the Wayfair decision affect my foreign-owned LLC's sales tax obligations as an online seller?
I've been selling online through my foreign-owned LLC for 3 years and just learned about something called the 'Wayfair decision' that apparently changed everything about sales tax for online sellers. I'm from the Netherlands and my LLC is in Oregon (which has no sales tax).
I thought because my LLC is in Oregon, I didn't need to worry about sales tax at all. But now I'm hearing I might need to collect sales tax in states where my customers are located even though I have no physical presence there?
How does this work? What are the thresholds? Am I already in trouble for not collecting?
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