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Is Amazon.com Playing Favorites?

1 July 2009

Last year, New York decided to aggressively pursue a sales tax rule already on the books by expanding the definition of venue to include companies with affiliates physically present in the state. Many vendors, Amazon.com included, made a lot of noise about pulling their affiliate program; interestingly, Amazon.com didn’t go anywhere. They did, however, challenge [...]

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Buy Fresh, Buy Local, Pay Tax

17 May 2009

Yesterday, the Lowe’s sale paper arrived at our house. The pictures of healthy plants on the front page convinced me to rush out and buy gardening stuff (granted, it doesn’t usually take much convincing). But instead of heading for the big box of Lowe’s, we went to Greensgrow Nursery, which I joke is my urban [...]

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Tax and Online Sales: A Conversation with Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO

22 February 2009

I am not a shoe girl. This horrifies my colleagues who, I’m pretty sure, wish I could find other than black clogs and tennis shoes to wear on a regular basis (little do they know that they’re lucky that, having grown up in the rural South, I even bother to put on shoes). But for [...]

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Amazon.com Did Not Even “Come Close” In Tax Case

14 January 2009

With very little fanfare, a tax case in New York may shake up the online world as we know it. In April 2008, New York passed a new law targeting online sales and requiring that online retailers collect and remit sales tax to the state. Amazon.com balked at the new law and later filed suit [...]

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