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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:25 pm Post subject: Ads rip Amazon on sales tax |
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A retail group’s ads call on Tennessee to require Amazon.com to collect sales tax. The group contends Tennessee has agreed not to require Amazon to collect sales tax, even though the leading online retailer is building two distribution facilities in the state.
The Alliance for Main Street Fairness, a retailer lobbying group, is running ads in Tennessee-based newspapers and web sites calling on the state to require Amazon.com Inc. to collect and remit sales tax on its sales to Tennessee residents.
With illustrations of a group of people who look small compared with a large single figure representing Amazon, the ads say: “All the little guys on Main Street have to collect sales tax from their customers. Shouldn’t the biggest guy have to collect sales tax too?”
The ads go on to say that Tennessee residents should be “thrilled” that Amazon plans to build new distribution facilities in the state, but that Amazon shouldn’t be allowed to forego collecting and remitting sales tax.
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