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Originally Posted by IrishNY
Originally Posted by deedles215
Sales tax cannot be collected from an out-of-state-retailer if there is not a location in your state.
So for instance; if you're buying from JoAnn's online, and you DO have a JoAnn's in your state (and your state also collects sales tax), you WILL be charged tax. If you are buying online and your state does not have a JoAnn's, you will NOT be charged sales tax... even if your state collects it.
This is true EXCEPT.... in good old NY, our politicians are so desperate for revenue that they passed a law requiring anyone who sells goods online to a NY resident to collect the tax and send it in to NY. Amazon sued because it is against interstate commerce laws. But in the meantime, as it moves through the court system, Amazon is collecting sales tax from NYS residents although Amazon has no physical presence in NYS. :roll:
Amazon is collecting sales tax from Colorado residents, too. I think one reason is that some of the Amazon affiliates are in Colorado or New York, so that is like having a store in the state.
I don't know about Colorado but there are no Amazon locations in NYS. This is because of the NYS legislators trying to supersede federal interstate commerce laws because they think NY is losing revenue to internet vendors and they want to recover it. That's why Amazon is suing.