John Fletcher, a partner on the State and Local Tax Team in the Jackson office, presented during the Council on State Taxation’s Sales Tax Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 25, 2019. John’s panel, “Hot Topics – East of the Mississippi” covered litigation and legislative issues for companies with extensive operations east of the Mississippi River.  Topics included the controversial recent trend by states to impose sales taxes on “marketplace facilitators” such as Ebay, Craigslist, Amazon, Facebook Marketplace, etc., as well as developments related to and concerns over the constitutionality of various aspects of Louisiana’s local sales tax system.