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Amazon Spends Millions to Fight Internet Sales Tax
NYTimes ^ | 8/27/11 | Aaron Glantz

Posted on 08/29/2011 12:36:49 AM PDT by LibWhacker

When it comes to avoiding the requirement of collecting sales tax from its consumers, Amazon is not afraid to open its wallet.

More than nine months before a proposed June 2012 referendum asking that California’s new Internet sales tax law be overturned, Amazon, the Seattle-based online retailer, has already spent $5.25 million, state records show, more than any company has spent in California this far from a vote in at least a decade.

“The initiative and referendum process have been hijacked,” said Loni Hancock, a state senator from Berkeley, who wrote the law Amazon is trying to overturn and who is now pushing legislation that could block Amazon’s referendum effort.

Even by California’s expensive campaign standards, the company’s early contributions are causing observers to take note.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: amazon; california; internet; internetsalestax; sales; tax
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To: LibWhacker
I wonder if individuals will be next? Our tax preparer first asked us about our internet purchases last year. Told us that Kalifornia law now requires her to ask her clients about them, declare what they've bought and pay the sales taxes on them, which we did.

Of course they will. They are just starting at the top of the list. Kalifornia is going to go after everyone and anything to steal money. They have to gather money to support illegals and fund green progeams.

41 posted on 08/30/2011 5:59:25 AM PDT by jetson
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To: jetson

Oh, man, I’d leave here in two seconds flat if I could. I just hope we get out before they put up the Iron Curtain.


42 posted on 08/30/2011 1:56:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: redgolum
I hate to say this, but the end of the Tax free Internet is in sight.

Technically, there never was a "tax free" Internet. Almost every state has a Use Tax, which you are to pay a certain percentage of the amount of good you purchased out of state. I suspect states are now ramping up to start enforcing them.

43 posted on 08/30/2011 1:59:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Esther Ruth

Incidentally, I wrote absolutely NOTHING that could even remotely be construed as being nasty, foul or vulgar. You might want to try getting your mind out of the gutter if such thoughts occur to you so easily.


44 posted on 08/30/2011 2:10:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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