Court: Borders Web Ops Must Remit CA Sales Taxes

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 14, 2005 @12:08PM from the government-as-organism dept.

ScentCone writes "A rather quiet appellate court ruling finds that Borders must start coughing up sales taxes to California. Even though Borders spun off their online business to a separate company (now run by Amazon), has no employees, physical facilities, banking, or other activity in the state, the court found for California. While this is at first alarming (unless you write e-commerce software, in which case this may be the Programmer Permanent Employment Act), the court's reasoning was that despite the separate structures, the Borders brick-and-morter presence in CA, some overlapping board membership, common logos, cross-promotion, etc., meant that the two divisions were too entangled to fend off CA's army of hungry revenuers. Ramifications could include good old print catalog operators, store-less biggies like Amazon that have partnerships with CA companies, and more."

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OT: Alternative to Newegg by angle_slam · 2005-06-14 12:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I like Newegg. I find them to be reliable and cheap. I used them all the time when I lived in AZ. Unfortunately, I moved to CA. Since they are based in CA, I have to pay sales tax, negating some of their price advantages. Any recommendations for good, reliable computer retailers that are not based in CA?