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Better use for Amazon’s incentive dollars

By Frank Knapp / Taxation / May 12, 2011

The opinion editorial below by Frank Knapp ran today in The State.———————————————————————————————- Better use for Amazon’s incentive dollars By FRANK KNAPP JR. When the S.C. House voted to support our state’s small retailers by not giving in to Amazon.com’s incentive demands to build a distribution center, predictions of doom erupted. One Lexington County councilman said […]

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Amazon’s tantrum

Last week legislation was introduced in both the South Carolina House and Senate to exempt Amazon.com from collecting sales tax on sales to South Carolina residents from its proposed distribution center in Lexington County. The bills have an uphill fight. My earlier blogs lay out the arguments against the Amazon deal:April 5th–Selling Small Businesses down the