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Amazon.com Inc. is giving bricks-and-mortar retailers yet another reason to fume.
As the online giant begins its quest to overturn a new California law requiring it to collect sales taxes just like its Main Street competitors, it’s sending signature gatherers to popular shopping areas to obtain the 500,000-plus signatures it needs to get the measure on [...]
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Amazon supports a bill that would give states the ability to force online retailers to collect sales tax, but eBay does not.
Those were some of the reactions to the Main Street Fairness Act, which Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced on Friday.
Congress has considered the bill before, but Durbin is hoping there is momentum now for [...]
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You may have noticed that the Internet is everywhere.
We bank, watch movies and read newspapers on the Web. We use smartphones to check stock prices and school schedules.
We can all agree that the Internet is not a fad.
We should also agree it’s now time for the Net to grow up. It’s time to end the [...]
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris says online retailers, like Amazon.com, can start to gather signatures to challenge a new law that requires more of them to collect sales tax from California customers.
Harris on Monday issued a title and summary to Secretary of State Debra Bowen for a proposed statewide referendum on ABx1 28.
The bill clarified [...]
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Escalating its fight to thwart a new levy on Internet purchases, Amazon.com says it will ask California voters to overturn a state law requiring all companies with operations or affiliates here to collect sales tax.
Amazon has refused to collect the 7.25% base sales tax since the law took effect July 1, saying it is unconstitutional. [...]
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A looming California electoral battle pitting powerful Internet retailer Amazon.com against the nation’s largest chain stores is expected to be fought on the issue of jobs — with each side saying its position is better for the state’s struggling economy.
Officially, the fight is over the sales tax and Amazon’s refusal to collect it under a [...]
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Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday that untaxed Internet sales are eroding Tennessee’s tax base and said he’s willing to take a leadership role among governors in urging Congress to pass a national approach to collecting sales taxes on goods sold over the Internet.
He said Tennessee is already losing between $300 million and $500 million a [...]
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Amazon.com is calling a new sales-tax law in California unconstitutional. Amazon appears ready to challenge the law, which states that having affiliates in the state is the same as online retailers having a physical presence there.
Amazon is moving to terminate its affiliate program in California. In a letter to affiliates, Amazon said it will end [...]
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Amazon.com has offered a $300 million investment and the promise of 5,000 jobs in the state of Texas in exchange for the state postponing legislation that would force the online retailer to begin collecting sales tax on purchases made by Texans.
According to one source, top officials in the Texas legislature and governor’s office are weighing [...]
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Things are getting a bit heated on Capitol Hill and no, we’re not referring to the ongoing ethics investigation surrounding New York congressman Charlie Rangel.
Online sales taxes were at the forefront yesterday as members of Congress on both sides of the issue squared off to promote competing pieces of legislation—Rep. Bill Delahunt’s bill to implement [...]
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