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Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is not clear here is whether, going forward, Amazon collects the taxes on Fulfilled-By-Amazon products, and whether that
by toss1 8y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is not clear here is whether, going forward, Amazon collects the taxes on Fulfilled-By-Amazon products, and whether that eliminates the need for each small vendor to file separately.
If Amazon does not collect the tax, and every small vendor needs to file for every micro-sale, this could have a massive negative effect on online commerce in general and particularly for Amazon, likely to see it's small vendors dropping like flies and undermining it's Get-Anything-On-Amazon approach
- dhimes 8y agoMy hunch is that if this is a problem then Amazon will soon provide a turnkey solution for its vendors. It would be a great competitive advantage to prevent the tax headaches.
- toss1 8y agoSeems like a good hunch. They've certainly got the capital, bandwidth and experience to do this, and id would be a HUGE competitive advantage. If the states get really aggressive going after the small vendors selling from their own websites, it'll even drive them to work through Amazon... Great for the AMZN stockholders, but not so great for the ecosystem...