New York to Tax Online Purchases

New York is so outrageous with its taxes. Starting today, they are going to start charging taxes on purchases made at online retailers - until today, they only charged taxes on online purchases from retailers who had a real physical presence (brick and mortar) in the state. Both Amazon.com and Overstock.com are suing the state and hoping for an injunction on this new law:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/30/technology/yang_amazon.fortune/index.htm

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