DooKey
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It was only a matter of time the states went after third-party sellers on Amazon after they finally got Amazon to pay sales tax to the 45 states that have one. A group of state tax authorities, the Multistate Tax Commission, is trying to nudge Amazon’s sellers to start paying up. They’ve set up an amnesty program for sellers on Amazon and other online marketplaces that would wipe out their back taxes if they start to tax future sales. I wonder how many small businesses on Amazon are going to go out of business over this?
“No one has a clue what to do,” Matthew Turner, a Texas-based Amazon seller, said on a conference call with state-tax officials last month. “I have no time to figure out how to deal with this, and no funds to pay a lawyer or accountant to figure it out for me.”
“No one has a clue what to do,” Matthew Turner, a Texas-based Amazon seller, said on a conference call with state-tax officials last month. “I have no time to figure out how to deal with this, and no funds to pay a lawyer or accountant to figure it out for me.”