More About The Online Sales Tax

How are States going to go about auditing the sales tax accounts of online sellers?

If memory serves, the Sales Tax audit was a big deal, and a bookkeeper or accountant set aside an entire block of time - depending on how long the auditor said it would take - from 3 days to 30 days.
What is the process to be?
How big will the penalties be?

I listened to some people talk about it, some said it would be a nightmare, and others said that there's great software around for it, and don't sweat the small stuff.

If I learned one thing in business it is that taxes are an enormous deal and it takes a lot of time and effort.
It will be a nightmare... guaranteed.
It will be such a mess that e-commerce will suffer... once again, the business people do not know what to expect from this. When implementation arrives, it will be buggy and extremely difficult.

After subjecting e-commerce to this, the States may take a step back and give online buying a little slack... at which time, the bricks and mortar retailers will set up a howl heard all the way to Washington and beyond, for now at this point the store front retailers will be held to the letter of the law, and e-commerce will all of a sudden be receiving a favor from the state government.

It won't work.

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