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Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling"

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 4, 2012 @11:21AM from the not-just-shipping-mind-you dept.

You may have noticed that retailers like Amazon are charging tax, in compliance with state laws, on not just the price of goods, but on the "shipping and handling" fees they charge. An anonymous reader writes "By coincidence I noticed this myself the other night, and ended up ordering something from a supplier in Arizona, rather than Amazon, to avoid the sales tax. Now here is an article about it in the Los Angeles Times."

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Buy Amazon Prime. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-04 11:23 · Score: 5, Informative

Problem solved.
1. Re:Buy Amazon Prime. by Prosthetic_Lips · 2012-11-04 12:51 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  False. The sales tax laws are very specifically worded, anything collected (even if in excess of what you were supposed to collect) is required to go to the states. Unless the rules are different since Amazon is out-of-state? I have looked into Florida laws, and even if I were to collect double what I was supposed to, I couldn't keep a penny (legally).