(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET)
California's tax collectors are preparing to open a new front in their battle to collect sales taxes from Amazon.com customers.
A deal inked last year between Amazon and Sacramento means that, for most items shipped from the online retailer's warehouses, sales tax will be collected at checkout starting tomorrow. But, as CNET reported earlier this week, that doesn't apply to hundreds of thousands of items "fulfilled" by Amazon from its warehouses on behalf of other sellers.
That means a New York camera shop could have inventory located in an Amazon warehouse outside of San Francisco, and provide next-day -- or even same-day -- tax-free delivery to northern California customers.
"You can assume we'll have ways of finding out who's holding stocks of goods in California," a representative of the State Board of Equalization, which collects California sales taxes, told CNET. "We have enforcement authority to obtain information in a variety of ways. We'll be approaching them with respect to their tax obligations."
No comments:
Post a Comment