Warming Battle Over Online Taxes

mackertm writes "The NYT (free registration, blah blah) has an interesting story about the fight over Internet taxation. A coalition of states and some big clicks-and-mortar retailers are leading the charge to simplify the process of collecting taxes online. Amazon, Dell, and eBay are the biggest pure e-tailers resisting this movement. It's fun to see Amazon try and talk about how difficult it would be to implement taxes for all states, when it's already doing it for Target and Toys 'R Us."

Comments

Online what?

[benjcorey]

Who'd want to fight over Online Texas?

Re:google link off topic but

[dmanny]

Indeed, feeding them bogus information is the only discouragement we can do short of not using their resources. I am all in favor of this whenever possible. The expenditure of this type of questionable effort is champoined by Golgafrichams who would otherwise have to get real jobs. While I am certainly aware that demographics can be a powerful tool, more often the use is of very questionable value.

Living a bachelor who went to the grocery store at most once a month, every six months I traded customer loyalty discount cards with a friend who has a family of three ravenous boys. Let the marketing weenies figure that one out.