Re: "however, can amzn's punk business plan take the sales tax hit by having a presence in the states where wal-mart does business?" - This would have fairly little impact on their business plan. The customers pay the sales taxes on their orders, not Amazon.
There will be some relatively small initial infrastructure costs to enable the correct charging of sales tax, and even smaller outlays to maintain it, keep it current, etc.
But it certainly would raise the cost of an order to the end user (not AMZN) for those who pay enough attention to notice their shipping & handling and tax charges. Which means all of a half-dozen people, because the vast, vast, vast majority do not even bother to read about what the shipping charges, taxes, delivery times, shipment methods, order processing time, etc. for online orders even ARE, before placing their orders!!
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PS. 'sides, it's all most likely a moot point. It will be set up to maintain as tax-free a status as can possibly be attained. At least until several states band together and sue such entities as Barnes & Noble.com into oblivion. B&N.com is a separate company from BN, which 'permits' them to side-step (temporarily) the issue of taxation in most states. **This is all just my very humble opinion, as the corporate papers say differently. But it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is, no?! Very small <g> |
