From the Concord Monitor:

A sales tax case between Massachusetts and a Nashua tire vendor could evolve into a much broader issue, experts say, forcing Bay State residents to pay their state’s tax on everything they buy in tax-free New Hampshire and allowing higher-tax states such as Connecticut and Rhode Island to try to recover their money from Massachusetts.

Massachusetts officials say the case before the Supreme Judicial Court applies only to one company, Connecticut-based Town Fair Tire Centers Inc., and one set of circumstances. The company sold tires in New Hampshire to customers who appeared to be from Massachusetts, yet did not collect the 5 percent sales tax that would have been levied on similar sales at one of the Town Fair’s Massachusetts stores.

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