‘An administrative nightmare’: Wayfair fights $600K Lakewood sales tax bill

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Wayfair, the popular online seller of furniture and home goods, has sued the City of Lakewood and Colorado’s revenue director, claiming it shouldn’t have to pay a $604,322 tax bill.

The Boston-based company claims that the suburban city’s “complex” 3 percent sales tax “is an administrative nightmare” that discriminates against companies not located in Lakewood and places “an undue burden on interstate commerce,” in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Wayfair claims that Lakewood and the Colorado Department of Revenue do nothing to “mitigate the burdens” on out-of-state businesses to comply “with complex, overlapping,…