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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
One of the issues going around is "what counts as a physical presence in the state?"
Amazon has warehouses & employees in several states where they don't currently pay sales taxes. I can understand a legal argument that, regardless of where corporate headquarters is, if the order is filled & shipped from within the state, that counts as a sale within the state and therefor is due sales tax.
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Fogrive an ignoramus. Just so I can follow this line of thought (not living in a federation makes it confusing). Let us assume that Rhode Island has a 5% sales tax. Let us further assume that Coca-Cola has no presence in RI. Every coke sold in RI comes either from Connecticut or Massachusets (distributors, bottling plants etc). Yet every retailer charges the RI consumer 5% on every Coke sold. Does that mean they can pocket those 5% for themselves? RI can't claim it since Coca-Cola has no presence in the state?
I realize this is an extreme example, and there might be several practical obstacles, but as a principle is this line of thought correct?