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Marketplace facilitator

A marketplace such as Amazon or Etsy that state law makes responsible for collecting sales tax on its sellers' sales.

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The detail

What it means in practice.

Every state with a sales tax requires large marketplaces to collect and pay sales tax on behalf of the sellers who use them, so a seller on Amazon or Etsy collects no sales tax on those sales. Sales through the seller's own website aren't covered, and become the seller's responsibility once it has nexus in a state.

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