There’s one thing that can slow Amazon sales, OSU researchers find
Picture a few professors flexing their muscles, doing some sick karate moves, like video game characters getting ready for a fight. Now imagine the paper they’ve written together revealing some… Read more »
Amazon will begin collecting sales tax in North Carolina next month
Amazon, a company intent on making the plot of Minority Report a reality in our lifetime, will begin to collect sales tax in North Carolina on February 1st. of this year The… Read more »
Supreme Court unimpressed with Amazon’s sales tax moaning
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court dealt with Amazon the way many of us in publishing wish we could: they simply ignored it. That court rejected without comment an appeal by… Read more »
Sales tax fairness legislation passed in Senate
Over the past few years, bookstores nationwide have protested the price advantage conferred on Amazon by not having to collect sales tax. Currently, because of a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, states… Read more »
Amazon has always been in favor of paying sales tax, says Amazon
Amazon loves sales tax, people. Loves it. Why would you ever think otherwise? Haven’t you heard their new slogan? “Amazon: Not a Company That’s Spent Millions Trying to Bankrupt Your… Read more »
This one’s pretty sweet: Amazon will soon be deprived of one of its (many) tax-dodging schemes. MobyLives reported earlier this week that Amazon UK had been paying the Luxembourg sales… Read more »
Amazon tax cheating ends in California
On Saturday, Amazon started doing something it tried mightily to avoid: collecting sales tax in America’s most populous state. As the Los Angeles Times reports, California officials say that Amazon… Read more »