Amazon.com has a brick and mortar or other physical presence within Texas?
They have a distribution center in Irving, according to the article.
Yes the have a facility in Irving Tx and other states as well in which they don’t collect taxes.......
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In a study last year, Michael Mazerov, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington D.C., found that Amazon has warehouses in at least six states in which it doesn’t charge sales tax on its own sales. “What Texas has done is evidence that the states are losing patience—particularly when there is very aggressive tax avoidance behavior like Amazon has exhibited with its warehouses,” he said.
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In Irving (DFW), talk of one in the Houston area too.
Never heard of one. But this is about money, honey. And you know how that goes.