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Get Ready to Pay Sales Tax for Online Purchases

Recently Amazon announced their best year ever despite other retailers reporting one of their worst holiday seasons in years. How did Amazon accomplish this? Through two distinct advantages they have over traditional, brick-and-mortar retailers: 1) Amazon doesn’t have the overhead associated with a physical store and 2) They don’t charge customers sales tax. As a result, Amazon can often sell items for less than many of their brick-and-mortar competitors.
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