Marcia Kaplan, September 29, 2011, PracticalEcommerce
After we published that article, California enacted a law requiring all ecommerce vendors to collect sales tax, effective July 1, Amazon terminated all its California affiliates and started collecting signatures to put a referendum on the ballot in 2012 to ban collection of sales tax on online sales in California. In less than three months Amazon spent $5.25 million, according to state records, to stop the law. Fearing that the passage of such an initiative could prevent the chances of it ever collecting sales tax from online sales, California started negotiations with Amazon..... Read more
