Dive Brief:

• Amazon is now collecting sales taxes in Indiana, Nevada and Tennessee.
• The move brings the number of states where the online retailer collects taxes to 19.
• South Carolina is set to join the list in 2016.

Dive Insight:

Despite the fact that consumers, regardless of their location, are supposed to add up online purchases on their tax returns, the reality is that it doesn't happen. States are missing that sales tax revenue and also trying to make things right for their local businesses. The Tennessee sales tax move, for example, is the result of a deal made by Gov. Bill Haslam after former Gov. Phil Bredesen struck a deal freeing the online retailer of collecting the tax.