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Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it... by ghaff on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:45PM (#15114291)
> was ignoring tax law

Most online/catalog companies don't collect sales tax and leave it up to buyers to pay usage tax [which is legal absent a physical nexus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota]. This remains the case. Amazon just got pressured into collecting because they're so big and have affiliate sales programs.

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Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it... by greglindahl on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:24AM (#15114750)
The way Amazon was ignoring tax law was that they operated warehouses in states while claiming that they had no physical nexus in them, by using shell companies.
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Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it... by ghaff on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:12AM (#15116001)
I may be wrong but as I remember it, the dispute was over whether affiliates constituted a physical presence. They collected where they had actual warehouses.
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Re:Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be it... by greglindahl on Monday August 28, 2017 @01:07PM (#15118190)
There was an additional dispute about affiliates. The tax dispute over warehouses went through several iterations.
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