E-books Exempt from New York Sales Tax

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Originally Posted by wayrad

What I had in mind was that the initial post indicates it's a question of whether a California company should have to charge NY sales tax on an item. Regardless of the type of merchandise and whether it's inherently taxable or not, I can't see the question even arising unless the company has a brick and mortar presence of some sort in NY, as Apple does. I probably didn't express it well.

The article in the original post was about ebooks as a category of merchandise being taxable at all, but the article didn't really go in to a lot of depth on that.

Both are contentious issues right now, though the issue you mention is the one that's in court in several federal districts at the moment (and Amazon's most likely going to win, and should, IMO).