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 e-commerce industry for about as long as online shopping has been around. But neither Amazon’s pedigree nor its reputation is [...]
Archive for the ‘Online Sales Taxes’ Category
February 2011 Junkie Winner: Amazon
Posted in Ecommerce, Junkie Award Winner, Online Sales Taxes, Online Shopping, tagged ACLU, Amazon, Amazon and North Carolina, internet taxation, Junkie Award winner, Online Sales Taxes on March 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Amazon Throws Down Another Gauntlet over Internet Taxes
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, tagged Amazon affiliates, California and Amazon, internet taxation, Online Sales Taxes, online taxes on March 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 handful of online sales tax bills currently pending in Sacramento. At issue are four pieces of legislation up for [...]
Worst-case Texas Scenario Realized for Amazon
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, Amazon and state of Texas, Amazon online sales tax, internet taxation, Online Sales Taxes on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 through on repeated threats that it has made in Texas (and elsewhere) during the dialogue over internet taxes, Amazon has announced [...]
Amazon Picks up Another Tax Win in North Carolina
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, tagged ACLU, Amazon, North Carolina Department of Revenue, North Carolina online sales tax on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s getting intense out there on the internet taxation battlefield! While more states across the country mull online sales taxes here in 2011, Amazon has scored a victory in its ongoing face-off with the state of North Carolina over its proposed internet tax with some help from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Thanks to [...]
Illinois Internet Tax Moves Closer to Reality
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, Uncategorized, tagged Illinois use tax, Illinois Use Tax Amnesty Program, Online Sales Taxes, online taxation on January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 the Prairie State regarding the hot-button topic of internet taxation. Lawmakers in the state’s General Assembly have approved [...]
Illinois Starts Consumer Amnesty Program for Online Taxes
Posted in Click Fraud, Online Sales Taxes, tagged Illinois Use Tax Amnesty Program, internet taxation, online taxation, Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, use tax on December 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With the 2010 holiday shopping season now in the rear view mirror, a move by the state of Illinois has served as a reminder that one of the biggest issues facing the e-commerce industry—internet taxation—certainly isn’t going to disappear from the forefront in 2011. The state has announced the formation of a new amnesty program [...]
Amazon Earns Victory in NC Online Tax Issue
Posted in General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, tagged Amazon, internet sales tax, North Carolina, Online Sales Taxes on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 bill that the state of Texas has handed to Amazon for unpaid online sales taxes, we find [...]
Amazon Gets Socked with Huge Tax Bill
Posted in General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, tagged Amazon, Google, internet taxation, online sales tax, physical presence, Texas Comptroller's Office on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll say this about the people in Texas. They don’t shy away from going after big companies when they feel like they’ve been slighted. Early in September we told you about the state’s attorney general opening up an investigation into Google for possibly manipulating its own search results for a competitive advantage. Now, Internet Retailer [...]
Report Accuses Several Big E-commerce Names of Violating Consumer Privacy
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Sales Taxes, tagged Amazon, Bizrate, consumer privacy, online shopping privacy, P3P Protocol, shopzilla, web privacy on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our regular readers know by now that we put a lot of stock in consumer privacy and can be very critical of anyone who takes that privacy for granted. Well rest assured, if the report that we’re covering in today’s post turns out to be valid, there’s could be serious fallout for some very big [...]
Internet Sales Tax Debate Heats up on Capitol Hill
Posted in Merchant Tips, Online Sales Taxes, Online Shopping, tagged Hodes Resolution, internet sales tax, Main Street Fairness Act, NetChoice, online sales tax, SST, Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things are getting a bit heated on Capitol Hill and no, we’re not referring to the ongoing ethics investigation surrounding New York congressman Charlie Rangel. Online sales taxes were at the forefront yesterday as members of Congress on both sides of the issue squared off to promote competing pieces of legislation—Rep. Bill Delahunt’s bill to [...]



