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"A showdown is underway about whether online purchases should be subject to sales tax.Only some items are now taxed when they're sold online, but there's a push to change that.Traditional retailers said they're at a competitive disadvantage when they have to collect sales tax on purchases but online stores don't.Kansas City's Creative Candles does a lot of online wholesale business to well-known retailers and currently charges no sales tax. Owner Ken Weiner said about 10 percent of the business is online retail, and figuring and collecting the sales tax of different states, towns and counties will be a burden.\"We're going to have to keep track of quite a bit,\" Weiner said. \"It will be administratively burdensome for us to do all that extra work.\"Conventional retailers have been pressing Congress this week to require online sales tax collections.Weiner said his company has no online advantage.\"When they buy from us online, they're going to have to pay the freight to have it delivered,\" he said. \"That's probably a wash with the sales tax, and they have to wait two or three days for the candles.\"KMBC 9's Michael Mahoney said the sales tax issue is not a done deal, but the current effort is the most serious attempt yet to get online companies to charge and collect sales tax.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wants the Senate to act on the Internet Sales Tax bill one way or another before the next scheduled Senate recess next week.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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