When did Amazon start charging sales tax?

[SensualPoet]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

The following is a partial list of merchants selling items at Amazon.com which may be included in your order, and the states in which they charge sales tax.

Amazon.com LLC: KS, KY, ND, NY and WA
Amazon Digital Services, Inc.: KY, ND, NY and WA (Kindle content, MP3s, and digital videos are only taxable in KY and WA)
Magazine Express, Inc.: AL and WA
Synapse Services, Inc.: WA only
Target.com: All states other than VT
Hachette Digital, Inc.: AL, AZ, CO, CT, DC, HI, ID, IN, KY, LA, ME, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI and WY*
etc

What a nightmare.

[PaulGuy]

Originally Posted by jswinden

No need to get into semantics, but some states do charge tax. Amazon collects it for them. But my question should still be understandable, and long since answered.

Semantics can be important. In this case I wasn't correcting you or anyone else in the entire thread who said they were charged tax. Your correct, the meaning is perfectly clear. My comment was on how retailers are required by big brother to collect their taxes for them and all the record keeping and paperwork that entails with no compensation other than "allowing" them to conduct business in "their" state.