Archived Amazon charges sales tax in my state. Is there a good alternative website? (AskVoat)
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Archived Amazon charges sales tax in my state. Is there a good alternative website? (AskVoat)
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[–] Medwin [S] ago
Amazon cut a deal with my state. They built a data center here and got huge tax abatement. Now that they have a physical presence in the state they are required to collect sales tax.
[–] ReverseEntropy ago
I don't think it actually has to do with having a physical presence does it? But even if it does, these days Amazon pretty much has a physical presence in every state for shipping and distribution reasons. I know that they charge tax in my state, but they don't have any data centers here that I know about.
[–] gpgyo 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
It has everything to do with physical presence. It's a concept called, nexus. It means that a company has enough of a physical presence in a state that the state can enforce its sales tax laws on it.