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Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost
... perhaps such businesses as Amazon, would be eager to move to such states as Texas where they won't have to deal with such anti-business ideas?
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Guess what?
That deal is already done. Coming to Austin in just a short matter of time. Their building complex is almost complete, I did the floors in one section of the facility.
......and then no sooner than it is almost complete, Texas makes them really mad for past sales.
http://www.statesman.com/Amazon taxes
Amazon has announced it will be close its Texas distribution center and lay off more than 1,000 employees in April and unsure about opening the new Austin headquarters, over what it claims is an "unfavorable regulatory climate." What did they find so unbearable? Comptroller
Susan Combs' ruling that the online store should pay sales taxes, just like every other retailer. Now odd battle lines have been drawn, with Gov.
Rick Perry backing Amazon over his own comptroller and Austin Rep.
Elliott Naishtat siding with Combs' attempt to collect $269 million in back sales taxes. Amazon has a track record of quitting states over taxes, having already walked out of Colorado and Rhode Island, and is currently embroiled in a fight with North Carolina after terminating its affiliate vendor program there. In an interview with the
Washington Examiner, Perry said Combs should not have sent the tax bill because its Irving distribution center was a warehouse and not "a store front. ... It was specifically there to manage products that need to be shipped out." But on Feb. 14, Naishtat filed House Bill 1317, which would close the
e-commerce loophole that allows firms like Amazon to undercut taxpaying local businesses. Naishtat said: "This bill is not about raising taxes. Rather, this bill is about fairness."
It is a tariff, to keep local businesses from being undercut easily from foreign companies.
Texas is building Texas