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Originally Posted by Phogg
California should have simply worked to enforce tax collection by the affiliates within its jurisdiction, but then hey the state didn't get broke overnight and it didn't get broke to the vast extent that it is because it was run by people with even rudimentary competence.
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How would the affiliates collect tax, don't they mainly just host banners linking to Amazon, and get paid for the referrals? They wouldn't know which items have been sold, or to where, so couldn't collect the taxes.
Besides, as I understand it, the tax is determined by the location of the buyer, which again they wouldn't know.
Even for those selling through the Amazon marketplace, it is Amazon that calculates and displays the price of the item, which would need to vary according to the location of the buyer.