The Corbett administration is expecting about $50 million from its new efforts to collect taxes on items sold over the Internet. The state Department of Revenue provided that estimate yesterday.
Gov. Corbett is pressuring Internet-based sellers to collect the sales tax at the time of purchase, as Pennsylvania-based companies have to do.
Also, the state's 2011 personal-income-tax return for the first time provides a line asking taxpayers to declare how much they owe in "use tax" on purchases they've made online without paying the state sales tax.