Reply #4: You're right. This is merely Amazon wanting to freeload. [View All]

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Sales taxes are passed onto the consumer, not paid by the retailer. "Affiliates" get maybe 1 - 3 % of the transaction as their commission. The sales taxes are an important source of revenue for California. It pays for the infrastructure and other support for Amazon, their affiliates, the trucks that deliver the goods, etc. This smacks of teabaggery to me -- "I want to live in a decent society but I don't want to pay for anything."

Dell faced the same issue many years ago and, now, they collect sales taxes on all of their sales to states that have a sales tax.