Wasn’t one of Amazon’s biggest advantages over brick and mortar stores the fact that you could effectively avoid sales tax for a lot of the purchases?
Wasn’t one of Amazon’s biggest advantages over brick and mortar stores the fact that you could effectively avoid sales tax for a lot of the purchases?
I heard that's why Washington state was chosen. Close to tech talent (Microsoft was there) and fewer people living there than other tech-heavy states such as California, so the US tax-exempt market was larger from Washington state.