It arose in response to efforts by Congress to permanently prohibit states from collecting sales tax on online commerce.
The SSTP was dissolved once the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) became effective on October 1, 2005.
With computers, however, the difficulties of doing so are much smaller today, so one remaining stumbling block lies in the variations among state sales taxes.
SSTP also strives to level the playing field so that local "brick-and-mortar" stores and remote sellers operate under the same rules.
The full member states are Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Six companies – TaxCloud, Avalara, Taxware, AccurateTax, Sovos, and Exactor (acquired by Intuit)–have been designated as certified service providers for the SST project.
[3] The Streamlined Sales Tax Project's amnesty program has caused a broad array of businesses to register using the SST system.
And it also makes a regressive tax even more so, because only those with credit cards and Internet access can do business online.