Amazon To Comply With Kansas Sales Tax Law

theodp writes "Online retailer Amazon.com will begin collecting sales tax on Kansans' Internet purchases in April, company officials told legislators Tuesday. Kansas' new destination-based sales tax law took effect last July."

Comments

Re:Well its only fair...

[Txiasaeia]

There's no way brick and mortar stores beat online. Going to your local book store is great if you want John Grisham's latest book, but when was the last time you saw Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle or The Prestige by Christopher Priest in a local bookstore? Or how about even Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories by Lovecraft? These are not obscure titles in any way, yet it's impossible to find any of them in a physical store.

Amazon.com has free shipping on books over $25; Chapters.ca and amazon.ca have free shipping over $39 CAD. If you wait until you have two or three books you want to buy, you can get free shipping, plus amazon.ca (at least) has online coupons, usually $5 off on an order. Sure, it takes about a week to get here, but it saves a ton of cash.

Every year I spend between $500-1000 on books, and all of that money (save one or two books locally) is spent on online booksellers. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I save a few hundred dollars on books every year just for waiting a few days for a shipment to show up. Bottom line: if you want to save money, buy online.

If all states don't cooperate, double tax?

[Godeke]

This could be interesting if some states insist on collecting point of sales tax, and others insist on collecting point of delivery tax. If all states are not using a single system, it would seem that some combinations would cause you to have to pay for both states... that would kill any reason to order online or from catalogs.