Taxing of Internet Purchases

Chernabog · 07-03-2011, 02:11 PM

Was your friend's office for Amazon, or a subsidiary? According to the NY Times:

"The law had said that an online retailer needed to collect taxes on purchases if it had a physical presence, or a nexus, in a particular state. Any retailer with an office or warehouse qualified. Amazon had no such facility in California."

If your friend turned down a job at an Amazon office in California then Amazon should have been charging sales tax in California BEFORE the law was passed. I have a feeling that your friend was offered something else:

"California’s new law goes further by including related companies, or subsidiaries in its definition of a nexus. Several Amazon subsidiaries have offices in California like A9, which works on search technology, and Lab126, which designs Kindle digital book readers."

There are no Amazon offices in California:

http://www.amazon.com/Locations-Care...node=239366011

Plus, if you go to the jobs section and perform a search for all of California, all jobs are listed in Cupertino, CA... for the aforementioned Lab126 company.

07-03-2011, 02:11 PM	#1
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Was your friend's office for Amazon, or a subsidiary? According to the NY Times: "The law had said that an online retailer needed to collect taxes on purchases if it had a physical presence, or a nexus, in a particular state. Any retailer with an office or warehouse qualified. Amazon had no such facility in California." If your friend turned down a job at an Amazon office in California then Amazon should have been charging sales tax in California BEFORE the law was passed. I have a feeling that your friend was offered something else: "California’s new law goes further by including related companies, or subsidiaries in its definition of a nexus. Several Amazon subsidiaries have offices in California like A9, which works on search technology, and Lab126, which designs Kindle digital book readers." There are no Amazon offices in California: http://www.amazon.com/Locations-Care...node=239366011 Plus, if you go to the jobs section and perform a search for all of California, all jobs are listed in Cupertino, CA... for the aforementioned Lab126 company. __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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