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Amazon Can Support The Internet Sales Tax Because Amazon Is Exempt

forbes.com

6 pointsvelodrome2 comments

This piece is written by a (flat-tax) lobbyist ("Katie McAuliffe is federal affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform."), which is very clear when you read sentences like:

  "They want the MFA passed not for sales tax collection,
  which has been on the rise, but to set a precedent for 
  exporting their taxes and laws across their borders so they 
  can tax and regulate people who cannot vote against them."

What does that have to do with the validity of the central point, which is that states which gave Amazon a grace period during which it wouldn't have to collect sales tax[1] are now complaining that much more minor e-commerce shops aren't collecting sales tax[1]?

Amazon's margins are thin and they're focusing on automation. Is it any more advantageous to have an Amazon warehouse in your state than it is to have smaller ecommerce outfits?

[1] On inter-state sales, of course.

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