Internet retailers face taxing issue

Brian Fricano doesn’t consider himself anti-tax. He’s just not sure it’s fair to put the burden of collecting sales and use tax for thousands of different taxing districts on small Internet retailers such as his.

If the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 passes through Congress, Fricano sees a straightforward bottom line for Broomfield-based Sustainable Supply LLC: Additional employees he has penciled in for expansion in 2014 probably would not be hired until he figured out the true costs of complying with the act.

“It definitely would slow things down for me,” said Fricano, whose online green building supply store primarily is geared…