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		<title>Amazon.com &amp; other online retailers costing states $7B a year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these stormy days of the ongoing saga between Amazon.com and a number of states (see here, here, here, and here), the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policies Priorities released a riveting report this week concluding, among other findings, that Amazon’s arguments against collecting sales taxes do not withstand scrutiny – costing states up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salestaxbuzz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5990563&amp;post=956&amp;subd=salestaxbuzz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon, Amazon, Amazon! And Blue Nile . . . and Now Overstock!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 30, 2009: Seattle *** Updated July 1, 2009 *** ***Updated July 29, 2009*** see below Amazon Pulls the Plug on Hawaii, Rhode Island Affiliates, Strengthening Its Stance for a More Cohesive Internet Tax Scheme What started with a pull out from its online affiliate system in North Carolina, Amazon.com has now cut ties with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salestaxbuzz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5990563&amp;post=755&amp;subd=salestaxbuzz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon.com Affiliates in N. Carolina = No More!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Althea Azeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 26, 2009: Seattle Amazon.com severs all ties with business, marketing affiliates in North Carolina There&#8217;s huge news here in Seattle that reverberates all across the e-commerce universe: Seattle-based Amazon.com notified its North Carolina business affiliates just last night that it will end all ties, effective today, to avoid collecting and remitting sales taxes in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salestaxbuzz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5990563&amp;post=748&amp;subd=salestaxbuzz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon.com v. New York: Score One for New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Althea Azeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media, online retailers, and many states are positively a-buzz on today’s news about the dismissal by a New York state judge of the Amazon.com suit challenging that state’s law requiring certain non-New York Internet retailers to collect and remit New York sales tax. The suit – Amazon.com, LLC v. New York State Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salestaxbuzz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5990563&amp;post=197&amp;subd=salestaxbuzz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Shopping Season, 2008: Everyone’s Suffering, Except Amazon.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With holiday sales reports showing record lows since the 1970’s and double digit declines in the sale of luxury goods (-34%), electronics (-26%), clothing (-21%), and the worst-ever drop in online sales (at -2.3%), the many issues related to sales tax are at the fore as we look ahead to 2009, especially as states face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salestaxbuzz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5990563&amp;post=70&amp;subd=salestaxbuzz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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