States struggle to collect taxes from e-commerce

Lawmakers in New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Hawaii have all introduced legislation in the past month that requires e-commerce companies to collect sales tax if they have marketing affiliates based in those states. This week, Hawaii governor Linda Lingle vetoed her state’s bill. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promsed to do the same.

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  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) understandably does not want to collect state sales taxes-and in order to avoid them it’s cutting loose thousands of marketing affiliates who link…

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