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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 01 2017, @04:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the show-me-the-money dept.

From NewsMax:

Amazon will start collecting state sales taxes nationwide starting April 1 after those governments complained for years about losing revenue to the Internet retail giant.

The move adds Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, and New Mexico to the states where Amazon will collect state sales taxes, after other states were added earlier this year, CNBC noted. Amazon will not collect state sales taxes in Alaska, Delaware, Oregon, Montana, and New Hampshire because they don't have sales tax levies.

The National Conference of State Legislatures said its members lost $23.3 billion in revenue in 2012 due to their inability to collect sales taxes from online purchases, CNBC noted. Amazon, the biggest e-commerce business, will collect state sales taxes for all entities that have them.

[...] Money magazine wrote this week that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for internet retailers like eBay, Etsy, and similar online marketplaces to be made to collect state and local sales tax. Proposals are in the works for New Mexico and Rhode Island.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Saturday April 01 2017, @05:12AM (6 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Saturday April 01 2017, @05:12AM (#487488)

    St. Paddy's day was the 17th. The part of the planet where I am it's still March 31. April fools day is still 2 hours away.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Hairyfeet on Saturday April 01 2017, @07:50AM (5 children)

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday April 01 2017, @07:50AM (#487514) Journal

    Can we have a vote on keeping the color? Because frankly the light green is a LOT easier on the eyes than the awful default color.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @09:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @09:20AM (#487541)

      VT100 is superior

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @11:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @11:56AM (#487587)

      As posted on some other thread, this color scheme is being added to the list, so tomorrow (GMT) you can set in your preferences.

    • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday April 01 2017, @12:11PM

      by linkdude64 (5482) on Saturday April 01 2017, @12:11PM (#487590)

      What I would really like is a few templates to choose from.

      Dark grey background with light grey text would be amazing.

      I've tried using browser extensions to change this, but they always screw up sites of more "unique" formatting.

    • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:40PM (1 child)

      by captain normal (2205) on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:40PM (#487740)

      Then we could be Soylent Green News. But you are right it is much better the eyes...at least my old eyes.

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      • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday April 01 2017, @11:52PM

        by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday April 01 2017, @11:52PM (#487751) Journal

        Yeah it not only is easier on the eyes but fits the theme, seems like a win/win to me and anything that cuts down on eye fatigue? Is a BIG thumbs up as far as I'm concerned. IDK what it is about the default color but it seems to give me a bit of a headache, its just unpleasant on the eyes.

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