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Amazon Prevails In State Sales Tax Dispute, Thus Far
snsh writes "A US judge has ruled for Amazon.com (PDF) against North Carolina's request to turn over the names of its customers to state tax officials. The ruling was focused on privacy grounds, so the state can still re-request less detailed sales data which does not identify items purchased."
Reader arbitraryaardvark adds a link to The Volokh Conspiracy's take on the decision.
like transferring goods.
Conducting business transactions and transferring goods to someone out of state is called interstate commerce. And the supreme law of the land says that the power to regulate interstate commerce belongs exclusively to the US congress, and specifically indicates that states do not have the power to lay tarrifs, duties, imposts, or otherwise tax imports.
In other words.. no... the foreign state doesn't have authority or power to regulate you transferring goods into their state; that authority has been explicitly reserved for the feds.
No, since you put all those purchases on your state income tax return and paid use tax on them at the appropriate rate it won't affect you at all.
English motherfucker. Learn it.
LOL, you just called him an "English motherfucker."
Mr. pot, meet mister kettle.
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Amazon isn't being asked to pay taxes at all. NC would certainly prefer that Amazon collect and pay them, but what NC wants is purchase details so that they can send tax bills to NC residents (you and me) for un-paid use taxes. Amazon has no NC tax liability - we do.