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SC Says No to Amazon.com: What Now?

28 April 2011

So wow. Color me completely shocked. Okay, not completely. But shocked. South Carolina legislators said no to Amazon.com’s bid for a sales tax exemption. And it was a big no. The vote wasn’t even close: 71 no votes to 47 yes votes. It was a pretty sound denial. The plan, as outlined a few days [...]

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Amazon Does Cayce: Will Porn Keep the Online Giant Out of SC?

25 April 2011

Amazon.com is upping the stakes in its quest to avoid sales tax on online sales. The online sales giant has promised to build a distribution center in Cayce, South Carolina (just west of Columbia) that will reportedly create 1,200 jobs in the first year alone. But. And it’s a big but. The company wants assurances [...]

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Are We Creeping Closer to an Internet Sales Tax?

13 April 2011

Like you didn’t see this coming… Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), together with Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), will, if all goes according to plan, announce intentions to impose a sales tax on internet sales. The bill, referred to as the Main Street Fairness Act in the Senate, is a companion piece to legislation bearing the same [...]

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Tax on Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts Sales Under Fire

14 March 2011

Every now and again, something just strikes people the wrong way. This morning, my email box was blowing up about a little matter in Georgia: House Bill 385 (downloads as a pdf). The bill, which weighs in at an amazing 127 pages, is already generating heat for its plans to provide a “comprehensive revision of [...]

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State Moves to Tax Coupons and Sale Prices

28 February 2011

I have a very distinct recollection of how Thursdays worked in my house when I was a kid. You see, Thursdays were sales flyers days. My mom would look them over, comparing them to her grocery list and a big, fat stack of coupons she had carefully cut out from the prior Sunday (as well [...]

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The Spirits of America: Massachusetts Lifts Sales Tax on Booze

4 January 2011

At a time when most states are looking for the next big thing to slap a tax on, Massachusetts is looking to cut back on those extras. Beginning this weekend, the state is eliminating the state sales tax on alcohol. Massachusetts imposed a sales tax of 6.25% on sales of alcohol, putting it pretty much [...]

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SC Residents Save Lock, Stock and Barrel

28 November 2010

According to retailers in Anderson, SC, more guns are sold in South Carolina in the weekend after Thanksgiving than at any other time of the year. No, it’s not that eating turkey at the holidays makes you want to run out and shoot up some more dinner. Or the thought of the Christmas loot coming [...]

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NC Just Says No To Taxes… Again

4 November 2010

When I first moved to Pennsylvania from North Carolina, I thought I had hit the lottery. I distinctly remember standing in Express buying some clothes on sale and waiting for the total. When the sales girl finished ringing me up, the total showed. It was the same as the subtotal. I stood there for a [...]

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Even Sales Tax Bills Are Bigger in Texas

26 October 2010

Everyone has that moment when they get a bill and think, “Oh my gosh, how am I going to pay for this?” Just imagine how Amazon.com felt when it received a bill in August of this year for – wait for it – $269 million from the state of Texas. The bill represents what the [...]

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On A Roll: New York Clarifies “Bagel Tax”

27 August 2010

As tax officials all over the country ramp up tax revenue collection efforts (the Philly “blogger tax” being a prime example), state tax officials in New York have officially crossed the line, according to many in the Empire State. The state Department of Taxation and Finance has targeted their beloved bagels. Okay, it’s not really [...]

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