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According to a news article on cleveland.com, starting Monday June 1st, Amazon began collecting sales tax from Ohio consumers.
Ohio retailers and retail associations have spent years trying to persuade Congress to pass laws requiring online retailers to collect and remit the same state sales taxes that brick-and-mortar stores are required to.
"What great news for Ohio," said Gordon Gough, president and chief executive of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, which represents more than 6,400 members. His group is applauding the fact that not only is Amazon making a substantial commitment to the state by creating 1,000 jobs here, but "they're going to come to Ohio and play by the same rules as all the other retailers."
According to Gough "Ohio will become the 25th state where the online retailer collects sales tax." The article goes on to say that "In exchange, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority gave Amazon an exemption on sales taxes for equipment purchases at the data centers and a payroll tax credit for new jobs, according to Bloomberg News. The incentives are valued at about $81 million over 15 years."
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday June 08 2015, @08:18AM
This is even worse. Amazon agreed to collect sales tax only if they themselves were exempt from paying it...
It's just getting worse and worse. Big corporations all going "oh, we'll help the gov't enforce the rules, but we don't have follow those same rules. we'll only follow the ones we want to."