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Microsoft, Amazon Patent Deal Includes Kindle

| internetnews.com

Without much explanation, the two companies announce a cross-licensing patent deal that includes Microsoft gaining a license to Amazon's Kindle. What does the software giant have up its sleeve?

Tax Challenge Pits California Against Amazon

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:18:00 -0500 | NPR News Headlines

California lawmakers are planning next week to impose a tax on sales conducted through Amazon.com and other major online retailers.

New Report on the Harm and Failures of "Amazon Tax" Laws

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST | Tax Foundation's Tax Policy Blog

As more states consider enacting so-called "Amazon tax" laws to force online retailers to collect sales taxes, a new Tax Foundation report cautions that such policies would not only fail to relieve short-term budget problems but also hurt long-term economic growth.

Click here to read the new report, "Amazon Tax" Laws Signal Business Unfriendliness And Will Worsen Short-Term Budget Problems, Tax Foundation Special Report No. 176.

The key findings:

Frustrated by their inability to impose tax collection obligations on companies with no substantial connection to their state, several states are considering the adoption of "Amazon" tax laws. Such laws currently exist in New York, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Colorado.
An Amazon tax law requires retailers that have contracts with "affiliates"-independent persons within the state who post a link to an out-of-state business on their website and get a share of revenues from the out-of-state business-to collect the state's sales and use tax.
Amazon taxes are unlikely to produce revenue in the near term. New York continues to face a lengthy legal constitutional challenge. Rhode Island has even seen a drop in income tax collections due to the law.
Amazon taxes do not level the playing field between brick-and-mortar and Internet-based businesses because they require Internet-based businesses to track thousands of sales tax bases and rates while brick-and-mortar businesses need to track only one.
Unconstitutionally expansive nexus standards like the Amazon tax undermine legal certainty, burden interstate commerce, and harm economic growth.

Amazon Leads Tech Stocks Ahead of Earnings

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Amazon gains on rumors as traders await first quarter earnings reports.

Earnings Preview: Amazon to report 1Q results

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:42:28 +0000 | Newsvine

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings after the stock market closes on Thursday.

Amazon profit up, but outlook scares investors

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:57:12 +0000 | Newsvine

Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that its first-quarter profit surged 68 percent, showing that consumers are even more comfortable opening their wallets to the online retailer.

You?ve got to be kidding, surely?

Tue, 04 May 2010 16:32:40 +0000 | Tax Research UK

Indigostarfish.com runs a mail order fulfilment business from Jersey. Of their activities they say: You may also know the name Indigo Starfish from our long standing relationship with Amazon. Indigo Starfish is the preferred merchant for the supply, on Amazon, of CD’s and DVD’s. Whether you realise it or not - it is likely that the [...]

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