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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, [...]

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Lights, Cameras, Tax Burden Shifting

25 June 2009

The highest grossing movie of all time is Titanic, which has amassed nearly $2 billion in revenue in just 12 years. The five Harry Potter films, all released within the last 10 years, have grossed nearly $5 billion in revenue. It’s clear that even in an age where there are other [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tax Breaks for Investments

5 June 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! Yesterday, I blogged about NC’s efforts to woo Apple and Google to the Tarheel state by passing corporate tax breaks directed at each of them. This is nothing new. In my own state of Pennsylvania, a new film tax credit is being touted in an effort [...]

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