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Trump Administration Backs Internet Taxes at U.S. Supreme Court

  • Government urges court to let states collect sales taxes
  • States lose billions of dollars in annual revenue, GAO says
An employee sorts packages at a UPS sorting facility.

An employee sorts packages at a UPS sorting facility.

Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let state and local governments collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers.

Taking the side of traditional retailers, the administration said Monday that the court should uphold a South Dakota law that would collect sales taxes from large Internet retailers even if they don’t have brick-and-mortar stores in the state.