Geno on August 5th, 2009

Yesterday Rich Owings tweeted a sad news, that of the affiliate tax (aka “Amazon tax”) passing the House and Senate in North Carolina:

Less than half an hour ago, Melanie Seery tweeted (highlighting mine):

Today in her blog she also wrote:
It is expected that North Carolina, like Rhode Island, will also have a strict interpretation of the nexus [...]

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Geno on June 24th, 2009

Yesterday evening @MattEnders, a North Carolina based colleague of mine, tweeted:

Having been one of the people to blog about the problem a week ago, I have gone online this moring to try to find the interview. Couldn’t find the recording itself, but got to this page on MSNBC.com:

The page links this this article on MyNC.com. [...]

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This morning the following e-mail has landed in mailboxes of all North Carolina affiliates of Amazon:
We regret to inform you that the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) appears ready to enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme that would leave Amazon.com little choice but to end its relationships with North Carolina-based Associates. You are [...]

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