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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
1. The IRS collects income tax. Your state's Comptroller (of Public Accounts) collects sales tax...if Your state has a sales tax.
2. Many states have recently forced Amazon to pay sales tax. So it is likely this person did not have to pay sales tax until recently.
3. Amazon collects the sales tax. It is very unusual for any individual to file a tax return saying "I bought ____ from ___ and was not charged sales tax, so here's the tax." (Though I do exactly that.) So any claims of tax evasion seem silly.
Ohh..wait...were You trying to be funny? Never mind.
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My state income tax form includes a table for additional sales tax to be paid, based on income. Amazon does collect sales tax in my state, but many other Internet retailers do not.