Looking at Potential Tax Law Changes From 2 Sides of Etsy's Coin

On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case South Dakota vs. Wayfair, Inc . While it seems like an unsexy, repeal-this-decades-old-tax-law case -- South Dakota would like to repeal a 1992 decision from the case Quill v. North Dakota-- the particulars could reverberate across the 48 states without "Dakota" in their names.

And small vendors who use sites like Etsy could bear the brunt of the court's decision.