Paul Misener News
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A loose coalition of anti-tax activists, direct marketers and financial industry trade groups has a tough task this week in overcoming bipartisan support for letting states impose sales taxes on out-of-state sellers.
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Paul Misener, Amazon.com’s vice president for global public policy, urged Congress to set standards for collecting state sales taxes from online commerce. Any exceptions to the tax should be kept “very low” for fairness reasons, Misener said.
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Amazon.com Inc. volunteered to help U.S. legislators rewrite communications law to more fully account for Internet services that are disrupting markets for cable, broadcast and telephone providers.
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Amazon.com Inc. and brick-and-mortar stores urged U.S. senators to pass legislation to let states collect sales taxes from online retailers based elsewhere, as other Internet companies said they oppose the measure.
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Red Bull GmbH, the Austrian energy- drink maker, lost a court bid to stop a maker of Scalextric racing games from putting its brand name on toy cars.
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Amazon.com Inc. and brick-and-mortar stores urged U.S. senators to pass legislation to let states collect sales taxes from online retailers based elsewhere, as other Internet companies said they oppose the measure.
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California would require online retailers including Amazon.com Inc. to collect sales tax on Internet purchases by state residents under a bill passed by the Assembly.
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Californians have shown a penchant for rolling back taxes at the ballot box, a history Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Web retailer, may be banking on to repeal a law aimed at forcing it to collect state sales levies.
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California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill in a compromise with Amazon.com Inc. that gives the world’s largest online retailer a one-year reprieve from collecting sales taxes on Internet transactions in the state.
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New Jersey stands to see as much as $40 million a year in sales-tax revenue from Amazon.com Inc., the biggest online retailer, Governor Chris Christie said.
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