Victory! Amazon Will Collect and Remit Sales Tax in All States With Sales Tax Laws

Victory! Amazon Will Collect and Remit Sales Tax in All States With Sales Tax Laws







This story took like 9 years in the making.  Way back when it started, every independent book retailer lost sales online trying to comply with adding sales tax on every sale. This resulted on online book buyers merely going to Amazon as they did not have to pay additional sales tax adding up to the cost of each book.

This finally vindicated the fact that no one is above bigger than Uncle Sam. And besides we as taxpayers benefit from paying taxes. It was years of advocacy initiatives with fellows from the American Booksellers Association. Finally, it is done and Amazon will start collecting Sales Tax by April 1, 2017.

Nowadays when it's getting much and much impossible to think of profitability in selling books, when even E-Commerce platforms offering advanced website integrations and SEO's do not want to go to books as a category stating it's really so fast moving, cheap prices and hardly profitable.

When this blog was created also 9 years ago when a soon to be retiree or an employed person can simply open an online bookselling store front and make extra supplemental income selling books online. It was also the time that the penny ($0.01) drop shippers were starting to proliferate the Amazon Selling platforms. The years that followed and ensued is already a known fact how it drastically affected the bookselling industry especially new bookseller rookies trying the vast world of bookselling.

For now, we just have to pause and celebrate this victory. Moving forward next month, hopefully book buyers realizes that buying online is the same as going to the retail store and pay sales tax. The only difference if ever is the deep bargains and discounts normally found on the internet than going to a physical storefront.

Kudos to the advocates on this issue including the United States Supreme Court.


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