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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by JAlexoid on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:46PM (#20414246)
Just a reminder - some US states have sales taxes applied to Amazon purchases, even though they weren't charging them before. This is pretty much the same.
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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by filoleg on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:48PM (#20415678)
You sell a product, you pay a sales tax. Those states simply leveled the field for Amazon to compete on the same level as local retail stores that pay the sales tax, so everyone pays the same. Makes perfect sense.

And iirc Amazon already pays that in the form of VAT.

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