None of those companies are the companies that are selling you things when you buy stuff off of Amazon.com. If that company actually had a presence in CA (as i

None of those companies are the companies that are selling you things when you buy stuff off of Amazon.com. If that company actually had a presence in CA (as it does in for example WA) you would pay sales tax in CA (as you do in WA). This is exceedingly cut and dry. I don't understand why people have a hard time groking it. Even the Californian government gets it. That's why they have to go out of their way to drag Amazon Associates into the mess.