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8/3     Where is Amazon located? If I buy a book through Amazon and the
        central "hub" is in California, will there be a CA sales tax,
        or will it be excluded like all other mail orders?
        \_ Amazon ships from Nevada.  Doesn't matter though.  Sales tax is
           required to be charged on all mail orders from companies with a
           location in California, no matter where they ship from.
           \_ Amazon doesn't charge CA residents sales tax.
                \_ They're supposed to.
                        \_ Why?  They're not in CA.
                           \_ If they have an office, warehouse or any other
                              'business facilities' in CA, then they are in
                              California and are sposed to do the tax thing.
                                \_ But Amazon doesn't have ANY of those in
                                   CA, unless we've annexed Nevada or Seattle
                   Delaware:
                                   recently.
                                   \_ I thought they had a warehouse.  Guess
                                      not.
           \_ Really?  I thought the hub is in Seattle.  I have some software
              engineer friends working for Amazon in Seattle, and they quite
              often have to help packaging shipments when there are too many
              incoming orders.  -- yuen
                \_ Seattle is corporate hq.  They have distrubution centers
                   around the country, including Nevada, Kentucky, Kansas,
                   Washington, & Delaware:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/press-releases/kentucky-dcs.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/sales-tax.html
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