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Colorado Tells Online Retailers “It’s Tax Time”
In what may become the standard by which other state lawmakers around the country use themselves, Colorado has finally enacted a new law governing sales taxes on the purchase of items online that puts...
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ACLU Jumps into the North Carolina Online Sales Tax Fight
Just a few days after we reported on the escalation of legal proceedings in Colorado over that state’s online sales tax legislation, North Carolina’s battle with Amazon (AMZN) over internet sales...
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July Junkie Winner: Congressman Paul Hodes
It’s not a stretch to say that the online sales tax issue has been THE retail news story of this summer. What started in the early spring as a handful of stories arising as several states considered...
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Amazon Earns Victory in NC Online Tax Issue
We try not to make a habit of posting stories involving the same company and/or issue in one week, but we really have no choice in this case. Even though yesterday we reported on the rather larger tax...
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Illinois Internet Tax Moves Closer to Reality
Less than two weeks ago we reported on the new online sales tax amnesty program being rolled out in Illinois that was the first of its kind in the country. Now there’s yet another big development in...
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Worst-case Texas Scenario Realized for Amazon
We just reported on Amazon and the online sales tax issue in North Carolina on Friday but it appears that there’s another new development in one of e-commerce’s hottest topics now in Texas. Following...
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Amazon Throws Down Another Gauntlet over Internet Taxes
Fresh off of severing ties with their affiliates in Texas less than a month ago, Amazon told affiliates in California this week that they will suffer the same fate if the state follows through with a...
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February 2011 Junkie Winner: Amazon
Our February 2011 Junkie award recipient isn’t a small up and coming operation like some of our previous winners have been. In fact, you know the name very well—Amazon.com has been a rock in the...
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More Online Taxes: Overstock Gets Creative
Here’s an interesting twist on the continuing saga taking place nationwide on the issue of online sales taxes. Overstock.com, which follows only Amazon on the list of web retailers that stand to lose...
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Overstock Ends Connecticut Affiliate Program
Repeating a program it implemented in four other states in April, Ovestock.com has ceased affiliate operations in Connecticut this week after the state became the latest to adopt online tax legislation...
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Indiana, Pennsylvania Getting a Boost from Amazon
It seems as though Indiana and Pennsylvania, two states that have yet to pursue internet sales tax laws like so many others around the nation, are being rewarded for their position on the issue by...
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Congress Eyes Federal Sales Tax Bill
Lost amid the rancorous debate over raising the debt ceiling, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Friday afternoon rolled out proposed legislation that would clear the way for a federally-mandated online...
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