I’ve mentioned the so-called “Amazon tax” a couple of times recently, and now it looks like it has passed the second big hurdle by clearing the Senate. It was actually packaged up into a bill by Sen. Hancock with two other bills:<\/p>\n
Hancock added, “Out-of-state online merchants are able to underprice local stores and California-based online businesses by as much as 10% by simply refusing to collect state sales tax. We’re finally on our way to changing that in a way that will help small business and brings in more revenue. It’s only fair.”<\/p>\n
The three bills that are part of today’s legislative package include:<\/p>\n
* Senator Hancock’s SB 234, which insures that the state tax board (Board of Equalization) has the authority to enforce collection of state sales tax by out-of-state retailers.<\/p>\n
* Assemblyman Calderon’s AB 158, which specifies that retailers have a business “nexus” or connection with the state if any member of their corporate family is located in the state.<\/p>\n
* Assemblyman Skinner’s AB 153, which obligates Amazon and others that use in-state affiliates to promote their sales to collect state sales tax immediately.<\/p>\n
The measure incorporating the three bills now goes to the State Assembly, where a vote is also expected later today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hancock’s bill should pass the Assembly on a majority vote basis today, and head to the Governor’s desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve mentioned the so-called “Amazon tax” a couple of times recently, and now it looks like it has passed the second big hurdle by clearing the Senate. It was actually packaged up into a bill by Sen. Hancock with two other bills:<\/p>\n
Hancock added, “Out-of-state online merchants are able to underprice local stores and California-based online businesses by as much as 10% by simply refusing to collect state sales tax. We’re finally on our way to changing that in a way that will help small business and brings in more revenue. It’s only fair.”<\/p>\n
The three bills that are part of today’s legislative package include:<\/p>\n
* Senator Hancock’s SB 234, which insures that the state tax board (Board of Equalization) has the authority to enforce collection of state sales tax by out-of-state retailers.<\/p>\n
* Assemblyman Calderon’s AB 158, which specifies that retailers have a business “nexus” or connection with the state if any member of their corporate family is located in the state.<\/p>\n
* Assemblyman Skinner’s AB 153, which obligates Amazon and others that use in-state affiliates to promote their sales to collect state sales tax immediately.<\/p>\n
The measure incorporating the three bills now goes to the State Assembly, where a vote is also expected later today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hancock’s bill should pass the Assembly on a majority vote basis today, and head to the Governor’s desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[9936,9581,152],"class_list":["post-13581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-9936","tag-9581","tag-152"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3x3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}