Amazon to Collect Sales Tax in Virginia
Amazon has suffered a defeat in their long-running war against collection sales taxes. The governor of VA announced last week that he’d worked out a deal for the retail giant to start collection sales taxes by September 2013.
Amazon has a datacenter and a distribution center in the state, and they are also planning a couple new facilities in VA. In fact, it was their expansion plans that spurred this discussion. Retailer groups based in VA objected to the advantage had over brick-and-mortar stores, and they were incensed that Amazon continued to avoid collecting sales taxes while expanding their presence in the state.
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