Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has issued a legal opinion declaring that a new and aggressive state policy for taxing online sales in invalid. Top republicans in the GOP-controlled legislature have now demanded that democratic Governor Laura Kelly require the department of revenue to rescind the policy. The department issued a notice in August saying any “remote seller” doing business with Kansas residents must collect sales taxes and forward the revenues to the state, starting today. State Department of Revenue Secretary Mark Burghart, in a letter to Schmidt, says over 32 hundred out of state businesses have registered with the state to collect and pay taxes in Kansas and his department enforces all Kansas statute unless deemed unconstitutional by a court of law.
