[trebor]

Ignoring tariffs for the moment... No one should be shocked that Amazon would do this.

Remember back when it was controversial to apply sales tax to online shopping? The biggest lobbyist against it was Amazon, which they marketed as fighting for the market against the government. Then they got big enough to survive a reversal ... and swung the other way to weaponize the law against their smaller competitors.

They've done a lot more than this, including creating their own brands to inject into a successful niche product or segment. They did all that off of sales/product data they aggregated from all sales on their platform.

Amazon is a dirty player in the market, and everyone should remember that.

[Tagbert]

This is not really a related issue other than "tax". Amazon's policy around applying sales taxes is just a distraction for this issue.

[m463]

> controversial to apply sales tax to online shopping

You know, they had a point though. California wanted a washington corporation to collect taxes for it.

They could not fight it because they were in another state.

It struck me as basically "no taxation without representation".

[AlecSchueler]

But previously it also seemed like Amazon leadership was cosy with the administration.