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I started paying sales tax with a lot of my Amazon purchases a month or so ago. I haven't paid a lot of attention but I think the way it works is Amazon charges the tax when they're the seller or when the seller has a presence in Arkansas. So most of the third party stuff isn't taxed.
I could be wrong about this but I do know that some things are taxed and some not and whether Amazon is the vendor seems to be the obvious pattern.
I suspect that Amazon could have fought this harder and won on constitutional grounds. I'm no lawyer but I do know that interstate commerce is controlled only by the federal government. My guess is that Amazon chose not to fight this too hard because they were creating a real problem for states and they didn't want to stir up a lot of resentment and adversely affect their reputation. I don't know any of this but it's my guess.
Barry
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