Posts Tagged ‘Amazon tax’Affiliate Rebuffs Amazon Call to Re-UpWednesday, October 5th, 2011 OCT. 5, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Some affiliates the California government destroyed are staying destroyed. Back in June, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill taxing online affiliates. After that, Amazon.com fired its 10,000 affiliates. Other companies did the same. Affiliates are companies, comm... Gov. Brown Signs Dubious Amazon BillFriday, September 23rd, 2011SEPT. 23, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Today Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law AB 155, the Amazon compromise bill. It suspends for a year ABX1-28, the so-called "Amazon tax" that was imposed in late June on sales by out-of-state companies with "affiliates" in California. These "affiliates" can be la... Amazon Compromise Would Hit Small BizFriday, September 9th, 2011SEE UPDATES, BELOW SEPT. 9, 2011 By JOHN SEILER A pending compromise with Amazon.com on taxes still would hit California small businesses. The online sales giant is working with leaders in the California Legislature to postpone a new state sales tax applied to the "affiliates" of Amazon... Calif. Business Community Attacks SelfWednesday, September 7th, 2011SEPT. 7, 2011 Amazon is sponsoring a measure, slated for the June 2012 ballot, which would repeal a recently enacted state law that, for the first time, requires online retailers with no physical presence in California to nonetheless collect state sales taxes. The nation’s largest online ret... Wal-Mart’s Total Tax HypocrisyTuesday, August 30th, 2011John Seiler: The biggest corporate backer of the "Amazon tax" has been Wal-Mart. The tax was imposed as part of last June's California state budget deal. It's supposed to slam Amazon.com for not paying state sales taxes. Instead, it slammed 25,000 small businesses, "affiliates" that used Amazon's... Go Ahead, Boycott Amazon.comTuesday, August 16th, 2011 John Seiler: I sure am not boycotting Amazon.com. And I wrote many articles here against the Amazon tax imposed in June by the tax-obsessives in the Legislature, then signed by tax-obsessive Gov. Jerry Brown. But I'm encouraging all tax obsessives to follow the new boycott of Amazon.com being ... Jerry Brown Killed This BusinessFriday, July 29th, 2011 John Seiler: Gov. Jerry "Jobs Killer" Brown quickly is replacing departed adulterer Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as California's second-worst governor. (Gov. Earl Warren always will be the state's worst governor for stuffing loyal Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during World War II.) ... Rutten’s Amazon Attack Ignores RealityMonday, July 25th, 2011 JULY 25, 2011 By JOHN SEILER L.A. Times columnist Tim Rutten continues his tax obsession in "Amazon's shameful California tax dodge." He just has it in for Amazon.com. He makes a weird comparison: At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons' first gilded age lingered on, many Califo... CA Businesses Split for UtahWednesday, July 13th, 2011 JULY 13, 2011 What do California-based companies Adobe Systems, eBay, Electronic Arts, Oracle and Twitter have in common? All have expanded over the past two years not in the Golden State, but in neighboring Utah. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert makes no apologies for pursuing California companies. “... Amazon Rallies Affiliates to Fight TaxTuesday, July 12th, 2011 JULY 12, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Amazon.com didn't waste time in working to repeal the so-called "Amazon" tax. The tax was passed last month by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. The tax is supposed to raise $200 million a year. But Republi... |