"Use Tax": How many of us actually pay it?

[Takket]

3. I actually do

I've never met a tax preparer that said anyone else ever kept track of their purchases. In Michigan you could report your online spending and the 6% tax is calculated and deducted from your refund, or you could use the "tax table" which came up with some number, I don't remember how, that was much less. The tax table is perfectly legal as the state gives you that option but it was actually my wife, who is terrified of being audited that insisted we keep track of it every year. It usually amounts to about $60.

So I sort of laugh when I see people up in arms about major websites collecting sales tax as if the government is trying to rip them off, but the law is already in place. In the last year or so amazon and most other sites started collecting sales tax so in 2015 we did not pay any use tax since it was all collected through the websites.