{"id":6334,"date":"2011-07-14T01:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2011-07-14T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:02:22","slug":"amazon-com-and-california-the-sales-tax-war-rages-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/07\/14\/amazon-com-and-california-the-sales-tax-war-rages-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com and California, the Sales Tax War Rages On."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously on Amazon.com and California:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon.com terminates its Associates Program in California in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2011\/06\/jerry-brown-signs-laws-redevelopment-agencies-taxes-online-retailers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Jerry Brown signing the law<\/a> that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes even though they don\u2019t have any physical presence in California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/14\/technology\/amazon-takes-sales-tax-war-to-california.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times reports<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon said this week that it would push a voter initiative in California that could eliminate sales tax for virtual sellers with only a modest physical presence in the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos supports the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.consumerreports.org\/money\/2011\/05\/amazons-bezos-federal-legislation-required.html\" target=\"_blank\">streamlined sales tax initiative<\/a>, which should be legislated by the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously on Amazon.com and California: Amazon.com terminates its Associates Program in California in response to Governor Jerry Brown signing the law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes even though they don\u2019t have any physical presence in California. The New York Times reports that: Amazon said this week that it would push a voter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/07\/14\/amazon-com-and-california-the-sales-tax-war-rages-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon.com and California, the Sales Tax War Rages On.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[310,589,730,1396,2009,2511,2595,2893,936],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-amazoncom","tag-california","tag-commerce","tag-headlines","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-sales-tax","tag-tax","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1Ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}