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“Amazon Tax” Repealed Under New Law

10 September 2011

Talk about down to the wire… The Amazon deal is so fresh (it was passed after 10pm last night) that you can’t find much in the way of confirmation yet on the web. In fact, the California legislature has the bill, AB 155, listed as “in assembly” since the vote taken on yesterday is still [...]

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Microsoft Exec: Consumers Need to Pay More Taxes

7 March 2010

What if the head of Coca-Cola suggested a tax on sugary sodas to combat increasing instances of obesity? Or if the big three automakers heralded an increase in the gas tax as a way of repairing our highways? It would leave a lot of us scratching our heads. That’s why many IT folks were left [...]

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Holy Zappos! New York is Collecting Sales Tax on Online Sales.

15 June 2008

Many online retailers received a shock last month when they received official notice from the State of New York that they must register and begin collecting sales tax. Until this month, companies that didn’t have a store or “physical presence” in New York were not required to collect the sales tax. This idea of taxation [...]

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Fat? TV Addict? Should You Be Taxed on Your Lifestyle?

7 June 2008

This week, I happened to notice a series of ads running in my local paper (The Philadelphia Inquirer) for Derrie-Air airlines. There were two features that distinguished Derrie-Air from, say, USAirways and United. One was the method of determining fare: The magic comes from our one of a kind “Sliding Scale”—the more you weigh, the [...]

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