Californians, Say Good Bye to Amazon, B&H, Adorama,...

never mind, Amazon is going to cut all ties with California affiliates therefore they will not be forced to collect tax from customers.

bigcountry wrote in post #12680988
you were suppose to be paying sales tax this whole time anyhow...so quit your crying.

Sales Tax? Not so much
Use Tax? Now that's a different story entirely...

Oh my God! They killed Ken Rockwell!

Bokehlicious wrote in post #12681075
never mind, Amazon is going to cut all ties with California affiliates therefore they will not be forced to collect tax from customers.

Exactly. And who does this hurt? CA businesses who sell through Amazon, since they won't be able to anymore. Which then ultimately hurts state tax revenue since Amazon is a very popular portal to sales worldwide/nationwide.

FYI--any CA business affiliate currently selling through Amazon already collects sales tax on items shipped to CA. Sigh--nothing new to see here in a bankrupt state--same old tricks that backfire. If only we had another Ronnie rather than Moonbeam at the helm.

M3Rocket wrote in post #12681321
Exactly. And who does this hurt? CA businesses who sell through Amazon, since they won't be able to anymore. Which then ultimately hurts state tax revenue since Amazon is a very popular portal to sales worldwide/nationwide.

FYI--any CA business affiliate currently selling through Amazon already collects sales tax on items shipped to CA. Sigh--nothing new to see here in a bankrupt state--same old tricks that backfire. If only we had another Ronnie rather than Moonbeam at the helm.

Never mind again, Amazon would still have their foot in California...crafty politicians

http://news.cnet.com …e-lab-in-amazon-tax-spat/

shagaholik wrote in post #12680758
amazon doesn't have stores in NY, not to my knowledge. i could be wrong. we had to pay for out of state online stores a few years ago.

Not stores, you mean warehouses.

damn. this sucks.

This happened to us in Colorado. Whenever Colorado residents purchase items off of Amazon.com. Newegg.com, B&H Photo, etc.. WE are supposed to keep track and pay sales tax at the end of the year. This law is in effect but I can pretty much guarantee that the majority do not pay sales tax on online purchases since you know.. there's no real way of the state finding out. I can see following the law if you're a business and spend tens of thousands of dollars online every year that you have to report but for the rest of us? Don't sweat it.

WaterVsAnchor wrote in post #12681867
This happened to us in Colorado. Whenever Colorado residents purchase items off of Amazon.com. Newegg.com, B&H Photo, etc.. WE are supposed to keep track and pay sales tax at the end of the year. This law is in effect but I can pretty much guarantee that the majority do not pay sales tax on online purchases since you know.. there's no real way of the state finding out. I can see following the law if you're a business and spend tens of thousands of dollars online every year that you have to report but for the rest of us? Don't sweat it.

Its not just in Colorado, look at your income tax forms...im betting its on there for practically everybody.

MOkoFOko wrote in post #12681362
Not stores, you mean warehouses.

Correct warehouse =physical presence...we have 1 here in VA so I pay sales tax on purchases from Amazon

Yes, same in Illinois but they also "let us" calculate how much to pay based on our income, now worries about keeping track.

digirebelva wrote in post #12681894
Correct warehouse =physical presence...we have 1 here in VA so I pay sales tax on purchases from Amazon

my bro lives in VA and occasionally i ask him to purchase items for me from amazon and he doesn't get charged tax. most recent purchase was the kata bumblebee bag less than 2 weeks ago.

Mass does the same thing, but they offer a 'safe harbor' amount, which is basically a value based on your income. I always just pay that.

dgrPhotos wrote in post #12681772
Take our lovely leaders in Illinois. Our great former Governor once said regarding an open Senate seat “----ing golden”, adding: “I’m just not giving it up for —-ing nothing”"

I have that as a ring tone on my phone.

The point is, CA government is putting a huge administrative drain on out-of-state retailers to manage CA's state business. If CA wants out of state retailers to collect sales tax for them, they should set it up so it is much less painful for the retailer... better yet, transparent. I would be very interested to hear how the retailers are managing this. CA is so screwed up, I bet many less than trustworthy retailers could pocket much of those funds and CA would never be the wiser.