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From: g-tookey@rocky.cs.wisc.edu. (Keith Tookey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MAIL ORDER IN IL is DEAD.
Summary: Any lawyers out there?
Message-ID: <8181@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 89 01:29:37 GMT
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In article <9056@cbnews.ATT.COM> res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>In article <2495@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> wolfordj@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (j.w.wolford) writes:
>>Our Gov. just signed into law that all mail order places must withhold
>>the 6 1/4% IL state tax. (Starts Jan 1, 90)
>
>Fine.  Could someone explain to me what powers of enforcement the great
>state of Illinois has over a business which has no assets or other dealings
>within that state?

Also, how does the interstate commerce clause of the US Constitution
pertain to the issue?  Is taxation a form of regulation?


Rick
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