{"id":5816,"date":"2012-09-10T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:50:12","slug":"amazon-to-add-local-sales-tax-to-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/amazon-to-add-local-sales-tax-to-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to add local sales tax to books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who buy books from Amazon USA might like to know that Amazon will have to start charging a state-based sales tax in some U.S. states, including California (7.25%) and Pennsylvania (6%), from 15th September 2012.  <\/p>\n<p>Small online book retailers are presumably able to escape the requirements of adding such local taxes, because they don&#8217;t own distribution or manufacturing facilities scattered across the country.  It appears that ebooks will also be exempt in the USA, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Here in the UK we have zero sales tax (VAT) on printed books, newspapers, magazines, maps etc.  But perversely we add the full 20% UK sales tax to ebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who buy books from Amazon USA might like to know that Amazon will have to start charging a state-based &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/amazon-to-add-local-sales-tax-to-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}