Widespread Amazon and Internet Taxes Coming Soon

By Robert W. Wood – Since use tax is tough to collect, the battle is over getting online merchants to collect it. Soon we’ll all be paying it. See Internet Retail Tax Interactive Map. In California, Amazon’s compromise exempts online retailers from collecting California sales or use tax until September 15, 2012 if the feds do not pass a federal online tax measure in the meantime. See Amazon Tax: Good, Bad and Ugly. more> http://tinyurl.com/84uotpm

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Carving Up the Retail Industry

By Hutch Carpenter – Digital disruption. Coming to a store near you. That online and mobile commerce is increasing its share of business really isn’t a surprise. The Internet, as promised in the 1990s, is turning over many industries. Retail being another such industry, although it’s a much slower process of disruption. Which means the physical retailers have time. Time to take their natural advantages and build on them. more> http://tinyurl.com/7r4e3dw

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