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Which is why the issue remains, as it has been since Quill, the extent of the seller's contacts with the state.

If you're making $100k to each 50 states, then you've got $50 Million in Revenue and can afford to do it.

If you've sold 10 t-shirts at $20 a piece, then your total sales of $200 isn't worth bothering with.

If we want there to be problems we can certainly create them, but doesn't seem all that complicated if we want it to work.



You mean $5M not $50M.


100k * 50 = 5M @ 2% profit margin that's 100k per year.

Enough to live comfortably on, but not exactly a big money. Further, the ruling applies to all taxes and has no cutoff under 100k/year required.


I'm curious where your 2% margin came from in this estimate. From what I can tell, that number is often quoted as Amazon's profit margins, but I'm not sure smaller more-specialized online retailers necessarily need to match Amazon's low margins.


If you are manufacturing something then the profit margins can be much higher. However, for retail 2% is fairly solid and likely above average when you include people losing money, but not outstanding.


> If you're making $100k to each 50 states,

Isn't it $100k or 200 transactions?

200 transactions is just 17 customers with a year of monthly subscription payments.




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