As I posted above, I expect that Amazon's new international store anticipates other countries taking Australia's approach. That way its indifidual national stores can deal only with the local taxes, which are complicated enough in the US alone. Compliance with the rules of other countries which seek to make Amazon responsible for collecting and paying their taxes will be kept within the national store for that country and the Internation store. Imagine the complexity and the administrative nightmare created if each national store had to register, administer and collect taxes for multiple countries. Even implementing this in one International store will be a nightmare.
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