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Amazon To Comply With Kansas Sales Tax Law

Posted by timothy on from the lion's-share dept.

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."

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  1. Taxes on Internet purchases by craXORjack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who wants to pay tax and shipping when you can go to a local store and just pay tax? Plus you get the item right away. On-line retailers will have to cut into their margins even further to compete.

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  2. Re:Well its only fair... by Txiasaeia · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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.

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  3. If all states don't cooperate, double tax? by Godeke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  4. No Tax is not No Tax by jackb_guppy · · Score: 3, Informative

    What people miss is that, if the store does not collect tax (no tax) then the buy still needs to pay the tax.

    Interstate shipping is viewed more as wholesaler transfer. When you buy out state, you are importing goods to your state. If you "consume" them then you pay the local tax on the "consumation" based on your price. If you sell them retail, you collect the tax and pay that.

    This is what business have done for years.

    It is what you should be doing today.

  5. The have to... by zulux · · Score: 3, Informative



    Amazon has a distribution center in Kansas. Other companies that don't have a presence can safly ignore Kansas law.

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