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Post by pictureman on Dec 2, 2010 8:32:33 GMT -5
So...we're destroying some wetlands for a company called "Amazon"...?
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Post by pictureman on Dec 2, 2010 20:30:19 GMT -5
Here's the worst part: I've been a regular customer of Amazon.com for several years due to decent pricing, no shipping, and no sales tax. Now, since they have a "physical presence " in Tennessee, they may start charging sales tax. Lost a big reason to do business with them.
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Post by Dragonlily on Dec 21, 2010 5:11:46 GMT -5
We will indeed start having to pay sales tax  |
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Post by gridbug on Dec 21, 2010 7:58:58 GMT -5
Get a PO Box in Fort O?
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Post by captaineric on Dec 21, 2010 10:09:55 GMT -5
I really don't think this means you will pay taxes on any purchases made from Amazon. It's a distribution center, not a storefront.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 21, 2010 11:17:47 GMT -5
Not a lot of "wetlands" at Enterprise South...however there is a TON of contamination.
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Post by benlin910 on Dec 22, 2010 20:14:33 GMT -5
I really don't think this means you will pay taxes on any purchases made from Amazon. It's a distribution center, not a storefront. i also think so. |
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Post by pictureman on Dec 23, 2010 18:49:57 GMT -5
Someone actually suggested the "wetlands" idea to me as an ironic joke, I think. True, this area is not nearly as "wet" as the Walmart/Chickamauga Creek area is/was.
Several years ago I went online and bought a computer from Dell in Texas. I was expecting no tax, but, they explained that, since they had a "physical presence" in Tennessee, i.e., a call center near Nashville, that they had to charge sales tax. Cost me over $100.
I do a lot of business with Amazon.com. Although Tennessee sure needs the money, I hope they find a way around this sales tax thing.
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 23, 2010 20:04:02 GMT -5
Yup, avoid sales taxes (except on necessities like food and medicine-but that's good and regressive) no income tax, no property tax increases (since we give such generous breaks to lure industry and business), no estate/inheritance taxes. Hell, let's just do away with all taxes. If a community needs services or infrastructure or what ever, I'm sure the good citizens will voluntarily contribute according to what they believe is fair, and everything will be fine.
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Post by daworm on Dec 23, 2010 22:32:01 GMT -5
Which food, and which medicine should be exempt? Should Cheetos be taxed or exempt? Should Viagra be taxed or exempt?
So, we should tax people coming (income) and going (sales)?
If X percent of our property value is enough to run the government this year, why should X+Y percent be needed next year? You only need to increase rates if you increase what you are spending. Why should we increase what we are spending?
Let's see, we can get a lower than full amount of taxes from a business that locates here, or we can get zero taxes from a business that locates somewhere else... I guess I see which you'd prefer.
Ok, so you tax it when it is earned, then you tax it tax it again when you die. Heaven forbid you pass on anything to your children without the government getting yet another cut of it.
Hell, let's just tax everyone at 100%. Let everyone work for the state, and let the state provide whatever it decides we need.
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 24, 2010 7:05:22 GMT -5
Sorry I confused you.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 24, 2010 9:57:14 GMT -5
I don't believe daworm is the confused one on this thread.
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 24, 2010 10:02:31 GMT -5
Well, you hadn't posted for a few days; now you each have company with the other.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 24, 2010 10:06:40 GMT -5
Yep. We coherent people can mock the confused.
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 24, 2010 10:20:44 GMT -5
Yep, and you be delusional, too.
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Post by daworm on Dec 24, 2010 16:17:33 GMT -5
If I'm so confused and delusional, please tell me where I'm wrong. I've been known to listen to reason at least once in my life. It might happen again, who knows?
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Post by JC on Dec 24, 2010 16:57:42 GMT -5
Sales tax - Will items bought from Amazon be sold from the new warehouses? If it's just fulfillment hubs then there should be no tn sales tax added
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Post by zodiacman on Dec 26, 2010 19:57:37 GMT -5
I don't think we'll have to pay sales taxes either, but if so then I'd gladly accept the requirement of a sales tax in exchange for 2000 jobs added to my community.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 27, 2010 8:55:10 GMT -5
If a business has a presence in the state of Tennessee, whether direct sales, fulfillment, service center or just a customer service agent answering the phone then that business is required to collect sales tax on all sales it makes in the state of Tennessee. Amazon will be charging sales tax on items sold in the state of Tennessee the minute they have an official presence in the state. That could mean as soon as the company's project manager is on site.
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Post by Warkitty on Dec 27, 2010 9:02:22 GMT -5
a fact which only serves to benefit the State of Tennessee, much like employing a bunch of people benefits the area and the State.
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Post by daworm on Dec 27, 2010 11:01:30 GMT -5
While I didn't care much for it personally, I didn't stop buying from Newegg when they opened their distribution center near Memphis just because they started charging sales tax.
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Dec 27, 2010 15:06:02 GMT -5
I use Amazon alot mainly at Xmas, taxes won't change my patterns. It's worth the convenience
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 27, 2010 19:28:28 GMT -5
A 10% tax to help fund our state. Why the whining?
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Post by joedog on Dec 27, 2010 21:58:50 GMT -5
A 10% tax to help fund our state. Why the whining? Less than 2% started a war. |
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 27, 2010 21:59:54 GMT -5
But that was a REAL 2%. And so what?
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Post by Justin Thyme on Dec 27, 2010 22:05:37 GMT -5
A 10% tax to help fund our state. Why the whining? Less than 2% started a war. It wasn't the tax, it was the lack of say about the tax. If I remember correctly the complaint was taxation without representation. I think you are represented in Tennessee. Aren't you? |
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Dec 27, 2010 23:29:41 GMT -5
The law says you're supposed to pay the tax regardless.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 14, 2011 6:16:57 GMT -5
And I guess there is a possibility that the fulfillment centers won't mean Amazon will collect sales taxes on purchases made in Tennessee. Amazon closing Texas distribution center amid sales-tax dispute
By APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas —
Online retail giant Amazon.com is closing a suburban Dallas distribution center and scrapping plans to expand Texas operations after a dispute with the state over millions of dollars in sales taxes, an executive informed employees Thursday in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press.
Dave Clark, Amazon's vice president of operations, writes in the e-mail that the center will close April 12 due to Texas' "unfavorable regulatory climate." Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako would not say Thursday how many employees work at the Irving distribution center.
Texas contends Amazon is responsible for sales taxes not collected on online sales in the state. The comptroller's office last year demanded $269 million in uncollected sales taxes from the company. The case is currently pending before the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
"We regret losing any business in Texas, but our position hasn't changed: If you have a presence in the state of Texas you are required to pay sales tax, just like any other business that has a presence in Texas," said Allen Spelce, a spokesman for Texas Comptroller Susan Combs.
Spelce said Texas loses an estimated $600 million in Internet sales taxes every year.
Amazon has been the target of numerous lawsuits filed by states seeking sales taxes on online purchases made from within their borders.
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Hopefully this won't rock the boat but sales tax ought to be collected on online sales, especially if there is a business presence, which a fulfillment center is, in the state. This disappoints me a bit with Amazon but affirms my decision to purchase a Nook instead of a Kindle. |
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Post by joedog on Feb 14, 2011 21:40:48 GMT -5
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Post by pictureman on Feb 15, 2011 5:48:31 GMT -5
From our Second Thoughts Department: I believe that if a company does business in Tennessee it should be required to comply with Tennessee law, including the collecting of sales tax.
From Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Disappointment #1.
And, no, I'm not becoming a Democrat in my old age.
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