Not too long ago Amazon had an important card to play as it competed for — and went on to win — online customers: “Buy with us,” it promised, and “you will not have to pay sales tax.” It was a potent argument — possibly one of the reasons for the etailer’s wild success — and thanks to a murky legal landscape, Amazon was able to sell online without collecting sales tax from its customers for more than a decade. That was then. A few years ago, stung by the recession and long resentful of their missing revenues, state after state began clamping down on Amazon.
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Amazon Hints at Instant Gratification
Posted by: Erika Morphy July 13, 2012 07:00 AMNot too long ago Amazon had an important card to play as it competed for — and went on to win — online customers: “Buy with us,” it promised, and “you will not have to pay sales tax.” It was a potent argument — possibly one of the reasons for the etailer’s wild success — and thanks to a murky legal landscape, Amazon was able to sell online without collecting sales tax from its customers for more than a decade. That was then. A few years ago, stung by the recession and long resentful of their missing revenues, state after state began clamping down on Amazon.