Amazon Sales Tax

Amazon Reaches Another Deal On Online Sales Tax

AP | By TOM DAVIES | Posted 01.09.2012

INDIANAPOLIS -- Amazon.com will begin collecting Indiana's 7 percent sales tax from customers in the state in 2014, under an agreement announced Monda...

Mall Giant Files Suit Over Amazon Sales Tax

AP | By KEN KUSMER | Posted 01.04.2012

INDIANAPOLIS -- Shopping mall giant Simon Property Group sued the Indiana Department of Revenue on Thursday to try to force it to collect taxes from A...

State Pressures Amazon To Collect State Sales Tax

AP | By SUSAN HAIGH | Posted 12.10.2011

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut officials are not giving up on requiring Internet sellers to collect state sales taxes, despite signs from online retai...

10 States With the Highest Combined Sales Tax Rates

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.26.2011

Sales tax revenue has plummeted since the start of the recession. And for certain states, that's been a particularly big blow. Of course, sales ta...

Dot-com Deadbeats

Kenneth Kales | Posted 10.24.2011

Kenneth Kales

Yes, you and I always have paid the sales tax on what we buy in a store. It is a populist approach and we have accepted it. But that's largely not the case when we buy online.

Californians Urged To Boycott Amazon For 'Cheating' The State

AP | Posted 10.15.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A coalition of nonprofit groups is calling on customers of Amazon.com to cancel their accounts unless the Internet retailer...

Californians Urged To Boycott Amazon For 'Cheating' The State

AP | Posted 10.15.2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A coalition of nonprofit groups is calling on customers of Amazon.com to cancel their accounts unless the Internet retailer...

Amazon To Fight California Tax

Posted 09.18.2011

(AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon.com Inc. says the California Attorney General's Office has approved its petition for a referendum tha...

Amazon Cuts Off Arkansas Affiliates

Connecticut Post | NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press | Posted 08.14.2011

Amazon.com said Friday that it would drop its online affiliates in Arkansas in response to a new state law that would have required the online retaile...

Are You About To Be Audited For Your Amazon Purchases?

mhpbooks.com | Posted 06.19.2011

Among the many rather thuggish hissy fits Amazon has thrown at states who want it to collect sales taxes like all the other retailers within their bor...

Texas Sends Amazon A $269 Million Sales Tax Bill

DailyFinance | SARAH WEINMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

The jury's still out on how much money states like Rhode Island and North Carolina (which is thick in litigation with Amazon over this very issue) wil...

Kindle To Go On Sale At Target

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

In a surprising partnership with a competitor, and a physical store at that, Amazon has just announced that Target stores across the country will begi...

Amazon Fights North Carolina Tax Info Request, Says It Is Defending Free Speech

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 05.25.2011

RALEIGH, N.C. — Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said it is taking a stand for free speech by fighting a request from North Carolina tax authorit...

Amazon sues NY over Internet sales tax collection

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

ALBANY, N.Y. — Amazon.com is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New...