Interesting Video: Advocacy Group on Amazon Laws

Nov 2

Posted by

Stand with Main Street is an issue advocacy organization supported by brick-and-mortar retail associations, whose purpose is to end what they call the “internet sales tax loophole”.  They have recently posted this video, which is their take on the impact of the loophole, and why they favor so called “Amazon Laws”.

 

I agree that it seems unfair that internet retailers seem to be able to by-pass state sales tax.  The issue is not fairness, the issue is constitutionality.  The question has always been whether or not the laws are constitutional on their face.   Men must govern themselves by their wit, commerce must always be governed by the rule of law.

My only other issue with the internet sales tax loophole is the means by which they attempt to solve the problem.  Amazon laws manipulative by their very nature.  The net result is not only does the state lose, but companies that are savvy enough to affiliate with Amazon also lose.

You can decide for yourself

About these ads

About James Skyles

James Skyles is the Owner and Principal Attorney at Skyles Law Group, LLC. He is a 2008 graduate of Ave Maria School of Law, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to graduation from Ave Maria, James earned his bachelors degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. James also holds a Certificate in Advanced European and Global Practice(Summa cum Laude) from Central European University in Budapest Hungary. Prior to founding Skyles Law Group, James was the General Counsel for the Franklin Center for Government Integrity, a nationally recognized pioneer in the field of online journalism. James is licensed attorney in State of Illinois, and is a member of the American Bar Assocation, the Illinois State Bar Association, The Chicago Bar Assocation, the Asian American Bar Association, and the Phi Alpha Delta National Law Fraternity. Aside from his legal work, James also has a passion for Italian gelato, and creates recipes as a hobby. He plans on publishing a book on the history of ice cream.

Posted on November 2, 2011, in Amazon Law and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 1,462 other followers

%d bloggers like this: