201301.14
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Amazon Collects Sales Tax in Massachusetts

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MASSACHUSETTS – Beginning November 2013, Amazon.com will start to collect sales tax in Massachusetts. This comes after purchasing the warehouse-robotics company Kiva Systems, in North Reading, and open a technology office in Cambridge. Paul Misener, Amazon’s VP of global public policy said that the company looks forward “to creating hundreds of high tech jobs in…

201211.22
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Amazon Collecting Sales Tax in Arizona

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>Arizona – Starting February 2013, Amazon will start collecting sales tax. The state sent the company a bill for $53 million saying, “we should have collected a transaction tax that is similar to a sales tax on applicable transactions.” According to State officials, Amazon, based in Washington, had an unfair advantage over other stores since…