One of the easiest taxes to avoid is the sales tax; often, all it requires is to shop online.
Perry Oksiuta, owner of Racine Cyclery, 4615 Washington Ave., is painfully aware of that.
“I have been at a 5.1 percent disadvantage for years,” he said Thursday, and he’s often written his legislative representatives about it.
The day before, the trade organization International Council of Shopping Centers, or ICSC, released a survey it commissioned showing general support for the idea of having online sellers collect state sales taxes. Local shop owners echoed those results, saying they’re at a disadvantage to online sellers.
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