Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Amazon only agreed to collect the 6.6% state sales tax, but there was no requirement to collect local sales taxes, which can bring total tax close to 10%. [ 16] This was an agreement between Amazon and Arizona, which mainly centered on Amazon's tax obligations because it maintains warehouses in Arizona.
Sales taxes are imposed only on taxable transfers of goods or services. The tax is computed as the tax rate times the taxable transaction value. Rates vary by state, and by locality within a state. [ 5] Not all types of transfers are taxable. The tax may be imposed on sales to consumers and to businesses.
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services. Usually laws allow the seller to collect funds for the tax from the consumer at the point of purchase. When a tax on goods or services is paid to a governing body directly by a consumer, it is usually called a use tax. Often laws provide for the exemption ...
The leading online retailer and the Massachusetts Office for Administration and Finance have reached an accord for Amazon to begin collecting the 6.25 state sales tax on any purchases by ...
The Great Recession has turned state budgets into deficit disasters, while the coming election has made raising taxes, or imposing new ones, politically impossible. So, governments are trying ...
Ka-ching! The cost of Internet shopping may soon be going up for North Carolinians if e-retailers jump aboard an Internet sales tax amnesty program announced on Friday by the state's Department of ...
South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., 585 U.S. ___ (2018), was a United States Supreme Court case that held by a 5–4 majority that states may charge tax on purchases made from out-of-state sellers even if the seller does not have a physical presence in the taxing state. The decision overturned Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (1992), which had held that ...
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has struck an agreement with the state of Massachusetts to begin collecting the state's 6.25% sales tax in the fall of 2013. As of September, the online behemoth was ...