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Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-a-reliable-method dept.

ralphart writes with this excerpt from the Dallas Morning News: "As a result of an ongoing tax dispute with Texas, Amazon.com has decided to take its ball and go home. The online retailer said Thursday that it would shutter its Irving distribution facility April 12 and cancel plans to hire as many as 1,000 additional workers rather than pay Texas what the state says is owed in uncollected sales tax. Texas wants $269 million from Seattle-based Amazon in past-due sales tax. It sent the bill to the company last October." We've discussed the online retailer's tax battles with other states in the past.

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  1. Other States by dunezone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Amazon thinks Texas is bad? Illinois is trying to get about 6 years back-taxes from online shoppers They want everyone who purchased goods in the past 6 years online to pay back-sales-taxes on those goods. How that is considered legal is amazing.

    http://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/12/state-to-offer-sales-tax-amnesty-for-online-shoppers.html

  2. Re:Texas Budget Deficit by FtDFtM · · Score: 5, Informative

    Texas is after sales taxes from before Amazon came to the state.

  3. Re:Texas Budget Deficit by gtall · · Score: 5, Informative

    "retardican", that's good. I've had this argument with similarly unenlightened people before. The argument goes:

    Them: No public money for research unless it is medical research.
    Me: Hmmm....quantum mechanics and relativity, modern techno-stuff is built on it, couldn't get funded these days.
    Them: Uh...uh...yeah, but I'm talking about pie in the sky research.
    Me: That was pie in sky, so was group theory, which underpins transaction security you can buy stuff on-line.
    Them: Yeah, well, they could point to something useful.
    Me: No they couldn't, Galois died in 1932.
    Them: Oh, okay, but not social research.
    Me: So, you don't want to know what social problems have solutions, like failure of schools?
    Them: Okay, you made your point.

    Two months later:

    Them: No public money for research unless it is medical research.
    Me: Recall we had this argument 2 months ago and you admit you lost.
    Them: What was your reasoning again?

    You see, there's no talking sense to these people, they cannot keep anything abstract in their heads for longer than a gnat's attention span.