Posted on 07/02/2011 3:46:49 PM PDT by tflabo
Saying it won't force California customers to pay sales tax on their Internet purchases, Amazon.com is severing ties with 10,000 small businesses and individuals here who funnel shoppers to the online bazaar through their websites.
The defiant action came hours after Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that would have required Amazon to start collecting a 7.25% base tax on online purchases
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It seems Amazon would be open for a standardized Federal sales tax to be collected but having to collect sales taxes based on variable rates across the nation could be a logisitics headache. Ca. rakes in multiple billions in tax revenues and still they mismanage it all. Why feed that fat beast any more $$.
“I don’t think they’re (Amazon) a particularly good corporate citizen,” said Darnell, who like other affiliates was cut off by Amazon. “We all live in the system and contribute to the state...”
Exactly, Mr Artiste. Keep bowing to the state. And Amazon is trying to save their millions of customers from paying up to 10% more on purchases. To do it, because of this twisted double-taxation law, they had to cut off a relatively tiny percentage of affiliates, most of whom will not be severely impacted.
Amazon had a choice: screw our customers or screw the government. I think they made the right choice and a gutsy one.
Very few companies will give them a job. From the age of 55 onwards, experience and work ethic may be very high but opportunities for employment are very low. Perhaps a Walmart greeter or McDonalds 'barista'.
Gov. Perry Vetoes Internet Tax Bill
http://www.atr.org/gov-perry-vetoes-internet-tax-bill-a6200
I cant believe Tx would even consider this nonsense...
My take
The only customers subject to the tax would be the California customers. Those of other states would not be taxed.
We have had a law like this in Tennessee for ever.
Thanks, GeronL.
I knew that Amazon had discussed pulling their warehouses out of Texas. I didn’t realize it had happened.
I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV but I think the difference is the fact one state can not impose a tariff on another state.
Which explains why Amazon can get around this by dropping relations with business within the state and just sell direct from outside the state.
Perhaps someone who knows the law better can explain it better.
You are not understanding the issue (and believe me I can see why with the mess California has made). This is NOT about the already existent law requiring sales tax on internet purchases that are in the same state. This is a NEW law signed by Brown that ADDS a tax to these affiliates or behind-the-scenes suppliers and manufacturers who might happen to be located in California. Those sales previously were not taxed, and to avoid adding the tax Amazon cut the relationship with those dealers. You know the folks I mean, everything from a Mom and Pop jewelry maker to a 500 employee widget seller. These folks sell thru Amazon as well as other sources.
They way I've heard it, a long ago Supreme Court decision says yes, it is out of line.
When did you have your lobotomy - or can you remember?
I surely understand that Amazon would be pro-Fed sales tax.
I would actually favor it..if it replaced income tax. Wow, the “poor” would have some skin in the game.
But I don’t see it happening in the immediate future.
I think there is mismangement on all levels, Federal..State, County and City.
Start with the premise that all taxes are "out of line" and continue your research from there.
Darn skippy...from one oldster to another!
“The old folks, as you call us....will demand all the SS money taken out of our wages, plus interest.”
You bloody damn right we will.
For most of my working life I paid the maximum amount every year into SS as demanded by a confiscatory law. I and others never received one cent interest on those monies. If we had, at retirement we would have had a much larger payout than the government thieves which took it will ever pay out with the so called benefits.
There are times I almost fly into a blind rage when I hear some freak say my monthly SS check is an entitlement. Placing it into the same category as a inner city baby factory, or a 3rd or 4th generation welfare parasite creep.
I many be old, but not so damn old as to not rise up and have one last fight left in me.
Yeah, you just do that.
Depending on when you starting collecting I'd wager that you've already gotten that and more.
That was my question...is it a new law.
if you mean CA. I’d have to move to it first.
Get used to it, grow a thick skin, there are plenty of people here who castigate us as welfare recipients. I like "Dale Reed's answer on an earlier thread today about S.S., Suck it up, i’m a greedy bastard!!! I believe I'll start using that one myself.
It wasn’t until the yacht building industry had been completely destroyed when they repealed it.
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