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Amazon warns it will leave California affiliates over tax law
Internet Retailer ^
| 03/02/11
| Paul Demery
Posted on 03/05/2011 12:50:28 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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Liberals' suicide continues.
To: TigerLikesRooster
California has become a drain.
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posted on
03/05/2011 12:53:46 AM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Who would ever think that actions have consequences?
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posted on
03/05/2011 12:55:39 AM PST
by
gigster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...
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posted on
03/05/2011 12:56:07 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Now - as the Great Lady Margaret prophesied - CA is running out of other people’s money, and they are desperate to keep that spigot flowing.
It’s disgraceful.
Good for Amazon.
Like a child, libs kick and scream and stamp their feet, but it’s NOT THEIR MONEY.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:02:47 AM PST
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: I still care
It is rather ironic — Amazon was founded by liberals.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:04:56 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Like several other states facing steep revenue shortfalls, California is looking to get sales tax revenue from out-of-state online retailers who dont have a physical presence in the state.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:07:14 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Ya left out this part....
Misener adds in his letter, a copy of which was received by Internet Retailer, that Amazon has already terminated its relationships with affiliates in three other statesNorth Carolina, Rhode Island and Coloradothat have enacted legislation within the past year aimed at forcing online retailers to collect sales tax.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:11:29 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: I still care
I *love* Amazon and blow lots of money on there.
Time to go shopping to show *my* “solidarity”!
LOL!
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:14:13 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: dragnet2
So much for the possibility of “bluffing”.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:15:51 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: Salamander
Amazon has already terminated its relationships with affiliates in three other statesNorth Carolina, Rhode Island and Coloradothat have enacted legislation within the past year aimed at forcing online retailers to collect sales tax.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:20:03 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
Amazon has already terminated its relationships with affiliates in three other statesNorth Carolina, Rhode Island and Coloradothat have enacted legislation within the past year aimed at forcing online retailers to collect sales tax. Just in case someone thinks that Amazon just doesn't like to collect sales tax at all, any marketplace transaction that Amazon completes on behalf of a California retailer to a California customer automatically collects California state sales tax and remits it quarterly to the state of California.
Amazon's rejection, however, is reinterpreting an advertising presence as being a physical presence. Note: One of the big pushers behind this is Buy.com which, being based in California, is fighting an uphill battle to stay competitive in California, as their prices are 10% higher than Amazon's at the final checkout because of the sales tax charges.
To put it into perspective, it is like California stating that any out of state company that uses a billboard advertisement is now based in California and subject to corporate taxes. It bends reality.
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posted on
03/05/2011 1:31:46 AM PST
by
kingu
(Legislators should read what they write!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I won’t pay their online sales tax either.
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posted on
03/05/2011 2:04:01 AM PST
by
Gator113
(I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Amazon.com Inc. told California tax officials this week that it will cut ties with thousands of California affiliates if the state passes pending legislation requiring the online retailer to collect sales tax from California customersGood for Amazon!
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posted on
03/05/2011 2:09:31 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Salamander
They have been having great cereal specials. I have a house full of cereal right now.
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posted on
03/05/2011 2:16:35 AM PST
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Ah yes. It’s often funny to watch liberal companies slowly be stripped of their principles in the free market.
All these things that sound so noble - once they get to doing business, they find out they don’t make any sense. They either discard a lot of the silliness or start lying about it.
Here is a fun article about Ben and Jerry’s: http://www.jonentine.com/articles/evil_empire.htm
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posted on
03/05/2011 2:24:42 AM PST
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: kingu
To put it into perspective, it is like California stating that any out of state company that uses a billboard advertisement is now based in California and subject to corporate taxes. It bends reality. Kalifornia also collects income tax from a part of millions of retired military - if you were ever stationed in Kalifornia, they deem that you earned some of that retirement there and, no matter where you reside when you collect it, they want their share.
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posted on
03/05/2011 2:35:05 AM PST
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It is rather ironic Amazon was founded by liberals.Everyone is conservative when it comes to their own money.
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