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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Without any notice I saw, Amazon has started to add state tax to your orders.
Anybody notice thus, if you haven't had state tax add on before?
That makes a number of other retails a lot more competitive.
like Barnes and Noble have always added tax, as they have number stores in most states. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
Without any notice I saw, Amazon has started to add state tax to your orders. Here you go: Link--------------- |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 853 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
Without any notice I saw, Amazon has started to add state tax to your orders.
Anybody notice thus, if you haven't had state tax add on before?
That makes a number of other retails a lot more competitive.
like Barnes and Noble have always added tax, as they have number stores in most states. There was a ton or warning. They made announcements for AZ in November and every month there after. It means they will lose some of my business but they are normally enough cheaper than retail that they will still see me a lot. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | I hadn't log on to Amazon in sometime as my old computer went down and I was busy for about a week getting all my stuff moved in to the new computer. Much less getting used to window 8 and the touch screen.
I came with a lot stuff I see no need for and been check that. Plus I very seldom look very close Amazon's first page, as usually go to what I'm looking for. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah, it started several months ago for me in Pennsylvania. As they add warehouses to your state, they start charging sales tax. I still go to places like DeepDiscount or BlowItOuttaHere first (since some titles can be a full $5-$10 cheaper, which can add up quite a bit), but if the price is close, I'll go with Amazon for the Prime shipping. Since the shipping is free for 2-Day, 6% isn't that big a deal. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 762 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am paying NY sales tax at amazon for a long time already. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 563 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nope, I hadn't noticed this. But then again, I live in tax-free NH.  | | | | My phpDVDprofiler collection |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 853 |
| | Posted: | | | | AZ got lucky. The state government got Amazon to come here with major tax incentives. When the state realized the short fall of income and almost every retailer in the state lead by Best Buy screamed foul they went after Amazon for sales tax revenue due to the monstrous distribution center in Phoenix. If I would have been Amazon I would have told them if they would not abide by agreements I was going to move the distribution center from Phoenix costing them a lot of jobs. Last I heard NM still gives incredible tax incentives.
Then again as I said before Amazon is normally cheap enough that this will effect my spending with them. Most items I buy on them are 3 to 5 dollars cheaper anyway and I'd have to pay sales tax either way. Where this will kill me is on video games as Microsoft through their free trade thing/program generally set the prices and retailers are not allowed to deviate from them. |
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| Registered: April 14, 2007 |  Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | Amazon's tax-free holiday in Indiana ends this year. Yes, we have major distribution centers here and the tax break was part of the initial deal.
We get almost next day delivery for no extra cost usually and beats fighting traffic to get to a big box store. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Amazon began collecting Sales Tax for California orders back in November of last year even though Amazon had no Distribution Centers or other facilities in the State.
Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown signed the Sales Tax Law back in 2011 but Amazon fought it for as long as they could. California sales account for 15% of Amazon's online sales revenue so they had no choice. But what really irks me is that now they have gone to bed with Brown and have committed to spending $500 million in the State to open large distribution centers and other facilities. Gotta give them illegal Mexicans a place to work besides the fields. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: October 30, 2011 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,870 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lord Of The Sith: Quote:
AZ got lucky. The state government got Amazon to come here with major tax incentives. When the state realized the short fall of income and almost every retailer in the state lead by Best Buy screamed foul they went after Amazon for sales tax revenue due to the monstrous distribution center in Phoenix. If I would have been Amazon I would have told them if they would not abide by agreements I was going to move the distribution center from Phoenix costing them a lot of jobs. Last I heard NM still gives incredible tax incentives.
Then again as I said before Amazon is normally cheap enough that this will effect my spending with them. Most items I buy on them are 3 to 5 dollars cheaper anyway and I'd have to pay sales tax either way. Where this will kill me is on video games as Microsoft through their free trade thing/program generally set the prices and retailers are not allowed to deviate from them. Well it shouldn't have anyway, in AZ you are required to pay use tax on items purchased on the internet where sales tax is not applied. Unless you chose not to declare it  However Amazon's main complaint on witholding sales tax has always been having to deal with the undue burden of filing and distributing withheld sales tax to the individual municipalities and counties. Currently the state has a 6.6% sales tax and the rest belongs to your local municipality and counties. The Amazon agreement with the Stae of Arizona is to charge the 6.6% state based sales tac and only distribute to the state level. By agreeing to that it countered the "burden" issue. Your basic government to business compromise The reality is that for those of us that were honest and delcared it properly on our taxes, them collecting tax is actually a tax break LOL | | | | Last edited: by Scooter1836 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | The law in California covering purchases made out of state has been remarkably rarely applied. For as long as I can recall (and I am in my 60s), if a Californian made a mail order purchase, the company was required to add local and state sales tax to the transaction if the company had any physical presence in California. But... (and this is BIG)... any Californian who purchased anything from out of state (no matter where in the world) was required by law to declare the purchase and pay the local and state sales taxes on that purchase every year. California allowed this law to be ignored by individuals (but not large companies) for decades. With internet sales increasing, many bills have been presented to the legislators to enforce all internet companies who sell anything to California to report all such sales so the state could enforce the law. Amazon decided to charge the tax, rather than report the sales. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,637 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lord Of The Sith: Quote:
AZ got lucky. The state government got Amazon to come here with major tax incentives. When the state realized the short fall of income and almost every retailer in the state lead by Best Buy screamed foul they went after Amazon for sales tax revenue due to the monstrous distribution center in Phoenix. If I would have been Amazon I would have told them if they would not abide by agreements I was going to move the distribution center from Phoenix costing them a lot of jobs. Last I heard NM still gives incredible tax incentives.
Then again as I said before Amazon is normally cheap enough that this will effect my spending with them. Most items I buy on them are 3 to 5 dollars cheaper anyway and I'd have to pay sales tax either way. Where this will kill me is on video games as Microsoft through their free trade thing/program generally set the prices and retailers are not allowed to deviate from them. They do, especially with the film industry. However, what's different in NM from a lot of other States is that NM charges a gross receipts tax. In essance it's a tax on the business, that has a physical footprint in the state, and not on the consumer as you usually have with a sales tax. Most businesses, if not all, choose to pass that cost onto the existing customers (but they're not required to) and simply list it on the sales tax line as found on receipts since that feature already exists in the software. However, residents have no requirement or obligation to report purchases with no gross receipts tax. Basically, an individual has no "sales tax" on any online purchase from an out of state business that has no physical presence in the state. |
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