Amazon Abandoning Tennessee over Sales Taxes

Amazon has recently threatened to scuttle its plans to build a pair of distribution centers in Tennessee.

This sad tale begins a couple years ago, when Amazon was invited by the Governor to build its newest distribution centers in the state. The new operations would employ around 1400 full time workers with another 5 thousand working part time.

At the time TN state law didn’t require Amazon to collect sales tax because it wasn’t a retail operation, but now it looks like that will change.

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