NH Nixes Cross-Border Sales Taxes

(Nashua, New Hampshire) This is great news for the overtaxed residents of adjacent states.

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has signed a bill intended to protect retailers from becoming tax collectors for other states.

New Hampshire doesn't have a general sales tax, a selling point it uses to attract out-of-state retail dollars. Lynch said today the new law will protect the state's businesses and will help to strengthen our its economy.

Retailers wouldn't have to provide sales information to out-of-state tax collectors. The other state would have to prove a good or service bought in New Hampshire is used, stored or consumed in the other state.

Heh. It's not clear how the law will affect Internet sales.