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Originally Posted by crane3
In Calif, Amazon was fighting because of the lawyers' "definition" of "presence. i.e. if a company or individual steers or refers a possible sale to Amazon, then would that be called a "presence" in the state? There is no real estate owned by Amazon. Also would a referrer being a "presence" by Amazon? The whole idea was more moneys for the lawyers.
Amazon struck a deal with Amazon to delay the taxing for a couple of years with the commitment of building distribution centers in Calif & employing thousands of workers to lower the unemployment rate.
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I believe the "steering" was Amazons argument, what about the states argument: "10,000 affiliates", and from wiki:
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However, on Amazon's website, under "United States Subsidiaries," listed are four California locations for A2Z Development Center Inc. - "an innovative customer-centric software development company" - including in San Francisco and Cupertino, where the Kindle was designed; a search engine company called A9.com in Palo Alto; and, in San Francisco, Alexa Internet, another Amazon search company.[23]
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The Kindle seems kind of big, and those other ones sound familiar.