State officials are now connecting part of the dropping trend in South Dakota sales taxes to online purchases. Most of those companies don’t pay state sales taxes.

Shawn Lyons, Executive Director of the South Dakota Retailers Association, says they are having those same conversations…..

Lyons says the legislature took some action in the last session to try to force the issue…..

The legislature authorized a court case if necessary to get online companies to pay sales taxes.

Lyons says the “Mainstreet E-Fairness” issue has been stalled in Congress for several years…..

It’s been estimated that online sales taxes could add up to thirty to forty million dollars a year.