Are you saying that an Amazon Marketplace seller located in California can no longer sell through Amazon? That’s not surprising, given the nature of the California law, but it is really unfortunate. There are many people who make their living selling books as Amazon Marketplace sellers. There are books that can be found only from Marketplace sellers. All of this commerce is being destroyed by our increasingly tyrannical government.
——Are you saying that an Amazon Marketplace seller located in California can no longer sell through Amazon?-——
That is my understanding.
Yeah, when sale tax receipt totals collected are less than before the new law then it will be back to the drawing board to come up with another draconian tax plan. Liberals are just as happy as can be watching the exodus from California.
I just received 4 emails from various companies explaining to me that I would no longer qualify as an affiliate (Amazon was one of them) because I live in California. They said they would be happy to resume our relationships when I did not have my business in California. My answer is to incorporate in Nevada and open a PO Box virtual office there. Screw these idiots. My business will probably never pay me anything while I live here either.
I think that Amazon Marketplace sellers already collect sales tax for the state that they are in, including California.
What California is contending is that because Amazon had affiliates in California (basically web sites that steer people to Amazon to make a purchase) that Amazon has a physical presence in California and therefore had to collect sales tax on all sales to California residents. Amazon severed all ties with the affiliates in California, removing the state's justification.
Yup.
And that is of no concern to the scumbag government bureaucrats.