shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com January 24, 2017 • Page 3 Retailers Welcome Decision To Remand Sales Tax Case To State Court erested in this spot? all 665-5884 to e your ad here. nterested in this spot? A Peaceful Transition of Power By Sen. Mike Rounds dents. Washington swore to preserve “the sacred fire of liberty” and uphold the “Republican model of Government.” Other famous lines from inaugural addresses include John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” and Ronald Reagan’s “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These remarks continue to inspire Americans today. The entire ceremony takes place on the West Front Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, as it has since 1981. Attendees fill the National Mall from the Capitol steps to the Washington Monument, all to catch a glimpse of living history. Following the swearing-in and inaugural address, an inaugural parade and numerous balls take place throughout Washington, D.C. While Jan. 20 is the official day the president takes office, months of preparation have gone into the planning of the inauguration ceremony and official events, such as the parade and the formal balls. Since 1901, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies Every four years after a presidential election, Americans from all corners of the country flock to Washington, D.C., Pierre, SD – The South Dakota Retailconsider" its prior decisions in Quill and to attend the incoming ers Association (SDRA) Jan. 18 welcomed Bellas Hess. president’s inauguration a decision by federal district court judge Retailers believe this week’s court ceremony. At noon on Roberto Lange to remand South Dakota’s decision will enable the case to be heard January 20, 2017, Presicase against three large online retailers by the U.S. Supreme Court, as a challenge dent-elect Donald Trump to state court. SDRA believes this is the to the now outdated precedents set by becomes President Donald proper venue for the case, in order to the Court in 1967 (Bellas Hess v. Illinois) Trump, after he is adminavoid potential jurisdictional issues. and 1992 (Quill v. North Dakota). istered the oath of office Last year, South Dakota passed a law The South Dakota Retailers Associaby Supreme Court Chief requiring out-of-state companies that sell tion played a key role in the discussions Justice John Roberts. goods into the state to collect and remit that led the state to pass last year’s law The oath of office of the South Dakota sales tax on those purchas- and to file suit against the giant online President of the United es. The law pertains only to businesses retailers. States is only 35 words whose sales in the state exceed $100,000 "SDRA welcomes this decision as long, and is stated in the annually, or that make 200 or more sepaan important step in a long journey to United States Constitution: rate transactions in the state in a year. achieve e-Fairness for our state and Main “I do solemnly swear that In April, the State of South Dakota filed Street retailers,” said SDRA Executive I will faithfully execute a lawsuit seeking a determination that Director Shawn Lyons. “The explosion of the Office of President of the state may validly require out-of-state online commerce in the decades followthe United States, and will retailers that conduct significant busiing Quill has created economic disparito the best of my ability, ness in the state to collect and remit ties and state tax challenges that need preserve, protect and the state’s sales tax on purchases made to be resolved. We hope that speedy defend the Constitution in the state, even if they do not have a consideration in state court will provide of the United States.” The physical location in South Dakota. The for expedited review by the U.S. Supreme first president to take state’s lawsuit was filed one year after Court on the issue of remote sales tax the presidential oath was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony collection." Lyons noted that that the law George Washington at his Kennedy recognized in his concurring passed by South Dakota last year did not inauguration on April 30, opinion in DMA v. Brohl that, “[t]he implement a new tax. South Dakotans 1789, at Federal Hall in Internet has caused far-reaching systemic who make purchases from out-of-state New York City, the tempoand structural changes in the economy” companies have been legally obligated rary seat of government at so that “a business may be present in a to pay use tax on those purchases if they that time. 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