Below is a message from the Alliance for Main Street Fairness that has helped lead the fight in Congress to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act that will allow a state to require online stores to collect sales tax on purchases from that state. The Senate in an overwhelming bipartisan vote…
Tell Congress to protect our small retailers
In 2011 the state sold out our small businesses and permitted Amazon not to collect sales tax from in-state purchases in exchange for the company building a distribution facility in Lexington County. This allowed Amazon to continue to have an unfair competitive advantage over our small retailers. That sales tax…
Amazon’s deal re-visited
The battle over state sales tax being collected by on-line retailers like Amazon has now moved to Congress. Amazon, which this year won a battle in South Carolina receiving a reprieve from collecting sales tax on in-state sales in exchange for building a distribution center in Lexington County, apparently has…