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Default OT Amazon to begin charging state sales tax

On Nov 23, 5:52*am, G. Morgan wrote:
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That initiative is well under way nationwide.


The states have quietly joined together to create this entity (below),
whose purpose is to create a system to collect sales tax for your
state on all your purchases, no matter whose goods you buy:
http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/


Here's current legislation:
http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/i...s,cntnt01,deta....
ntnt01articleid=3D121&cntnt01origid=3D15&cntnt01r eturnid=3D74


It's coming, folks.


**** 'em. *I'm in Texas and will only collect tax for Texas. *What a
bunch of convoluted nonsense. *How are online stores supposed to keep up
with all that?


That is not an excuse for any online store. It only takes a computer
and a relative small database to keep track of the sales tax by zip
code. That excuse just doesn't cut it in the internet age.

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