In Texas, the story is a little different, with legislators divided on the issue. Here, Amazon has already been charged $269 million worth of sales taxes (including back taxes), something the company continues to fight. Despite the promise of 6,000 jobs, Amazon’s lobbying in the state appears to have fallen short.
Amazon continues to threaten the closure of operations in all states where it is required to collect taxes. At the same time, it is ostensibly supporting the bill introduced by Senator Dick Durbin, which seeks to force online retailers to collect taxes in the same way as those operating offline (possibly because the bill is unlikely to be passed given the limited support from the Republicans). While these strong-arming tactics are unlikely to go down well with legislators, Amazon could win in the short term and buy itself the few years it is seeking.
- Amazon Playing the “Jobs” Card, Zacks.com, September 6, 2011.
3. Paul Krugman is urging Greeks to vote “no” in a referendum that could determine their country’s future in the European Union.
In a New York Times blog post published Sunday evening, the Nobel Prize-winning economist argued that the July 5 referendum would simply preserve the same dysfunctional austerity regime that has left Greece languishing for five years.
In that case, Krugman said, it would perhaps be better for Greece to leave the euro, reissue the drachma as a currency and simply try to weather the economic tumult that would result.
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