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Congress Eyes Federal Sales Tax Bill

Posted in Online Sales Taxes, tagged , , , , , , on August 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »

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 sales tax in states that participate in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SST). The Main Street Fairness Act would essentially reverse the Supreme Court’s 1992 [...]

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Indiana, Pennsylvania Getting a Boost from Amazon

Posted in Ecommerce, Online Sales Taxes, tagged , , , , , on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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 Amazon. Amazon, which along with Overstock.com has assumed a leading voice for the e-commerce industry in the ongoing debate over [...]

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Overstock Ends Connecticut Affiliate Program

Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, Online Shopping, tagged , , , on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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 and will be focusing resources on Connecticut shoppers instead. As it already does in New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Illinois, Overstock will [...]

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More Online Taxes: Overstock Gets Creative

Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, Online Shopping, tagged , , , , , on April 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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 the most from affiliate online sales tax legislation sprouting up in various states, has come up with a new promotion that seeks [...]

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February 2011 Junkie Winner: Amazon

Posted in Ecommerce, Junkie Award Winner, Online Sales Taxes, Online Shopping, tagged , , , , , on March 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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Amazon Throws Down Another Gauntlet over Internet Taxes

Posted in Online Sales Taxes, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Worst-case Texas Scenario Realized for Amazon

Posted in Online Sales Taxes, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Illinois Internet Tax Moves Closer to Reality

Posted in Online Sales Taxes, Uncategorized, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Amazon Earns Victory in NC Online Tax Issue

Posted in General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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July Junkie Winner: Congressman Paul Hodes

Posted in Junkie Award Winner, tagged , , , , , , on August 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »

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 and/or implemented their own internet sales tax legislation has ballooned into a highly complex situation that now reaches [...]

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