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Back to homepageAmazon Rallies Affiliates to Fight Tax
JULY 12, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Amazon.com didn’t waste time in working to repeal the so-called “Amazon” tax. The tax was passed last month by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. The tax is
Read MoreAmazon Warns It Will Fire Affiliates
John Seiler: Update, 6:13 pm, June 29, 2011: Gov. Jerry “Kill Businesses” Brown just signed this jobs-killing bill. It also slams Internet commerce globally, something anyone in California should oppose because of our huge Internet companies. Brown fashions himself a
Read MoreBuy now: Amazon sales tax hits Saturday
Sept. 13, 2012 By John Seiler If you live in California and have been thinking of buying anything on Amazon.com, do so today or Friday. On Saturday, Sept. 15, the state imposes its sales tax — 8 percent or so
Read MoreNew Rules For Amazon Tax
Katy Grimes: After biting debate today on the new Internet tax, the Board of Equalization decided that some rules of play were needed. The controversial internet tax, the recent law passed which imposes “use” taxes on out-of-state retailers and small affiliate businesses, already
Read MoreRutten's Amazon Attack Ignores Reality
JULY 25, 2011 By JOHN SEILER L.A. Times columnist Tim Rutten continues his tax obsession in “Amazon’s shameful California tax dodge.” He just has it in for Amazon.com. He makes a weird comparison: At the turn of the last century,
Read MoreAmazon Tax Already Killing CA Biz
John Seiler: The “Amazon” tax imposed Gov. Jerry “Jobs Killer” Brown and the Democratic Legislature, at the behest of the government unions that control them, already is killing scores of California businesses. Reports Jan Norman of the Orange County Register:
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Victims of 'Amazon Tax' Cry Out
Note: If you were fired as an Amazon affiliate, please email me your story to be included in a future article: [email protected] JULY 1, 2011 By JOHN SEILER “I was fired today,” my friend Gary Metz wrote me just after
Read MoreBrown Signs Punitive Amazon Tax
(This is an updated Washington Examiner story from June 29.) JUNE 30, 2011 By KATY GRIMES With the California legislature having just passed a flawed budget full of accounting tricks, budget gimmicks and money grabs, one area of small business
Read More'Amazon Tax' Would Kill 25K CA Businesses
JUNE 21, 2011 By KATY GRIMES A growing number of states, including California, are demanding that online retailers such as Overstock and Amazon collect and pay sales tax. eBay, the world’s largest online auction company and not necessarily a retailer, is
Read MoreAmazon Tax Bill Passes Assembly
John Seiler: California’s Democratic legislators are the nation’s most narrow-minded and unimaginative. In the Assembly, they just passed a bill by Charles Caleron, D-Whittier, to tax Amazon.com and other companies that currently avoid paying the state’s hefty sales tax, usually
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