birds gotta fly, andRATS gotta tax!
Amazon is not going to break the law. They have said they will stop doing the activity that is being taxed by dropping all of their affiliates.
Pubbies like their taxes too.
Following the law these days is passe as illustrated by the Bambi administration.......Democrats refuse to pay thier taxes, Bambi refuses to step down even though he can’t prove eligibility, Bambi refuses to ask Congress for approval gto war with Libya.............hey, it’s rotten from the head down. anyone who would comply with CA is insane
Tennessee is more than happy to take over California’s business burdens.
Why should I pay state sales taxes on a purchase not made in my state? I go on-line and buy something from France or Japan why should I pay a state sales tax?
Comrade Mao approves
Califoria doesn’t need to secede from the Union. They are already a foreign country. Unrecognizable to us southerners. Ditto for NY.
The San Francisco Chronicle, doing what it does best—lie. Amazon is not required to collect CA sales tax on items sold by Amazon.com. The law has to do with in-state affiliates, from whom Amazon has just disaffiliated itself.
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It was always meant to come down to a court fight. CA wants to make new law by saying that a retail company DOES have a physical presence in the state, even if that presence is a few guys in an office programming. They then want to use that presence in order to extend to the company the obligation to pay sales tax.
Don’t put it past the State Board of Equalization to come after residents for use taxes.
I hate our greedy CA gov’t. If we could only cut pensions to the state unions, and stop donating to illegal aliens, we’d be a great state again.
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 9: No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Happy July 4th. Next case.
There are probably millions of people that buy from Amazon in Calif, let them storm the Capitol with torches and pitchforks.
With plenty of hot tar and comfortable soft rainbow feathers.
the times
Amazon planning 4th Indiana distribution center
By The Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:00 am
PLAINFIELD, Ind. | Amazon.com is planning to open a fourth large distribution center in central Indiana.
The Seattle-based company announced Wednesday that its new warehouse in Plainfield would have hundreds of full-time and seasonal jobs, but didn’t give specifics or say when it would open. That follows Amazon’s announcement in May of a new distribution center near Indianapolis International Airport.
The Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis Business Journal report the warehouse announcements come as the Internet retailer fights other states trying to collect taxes from its online sales. Indiana officials offered four years ago to not push the tax issue in recruiting Amazon to the state.
Amazon now has a distribution center just north of Indianapolis in Whitestown with 1,200 full-time workers and another in Plainfield that opened with 350 employees