it from their NY customers. The face-off between Amazon and various states was over what actually constitutes a nexus for sales tax purposes. Some states claimed, for example, that just having affili

On the other hand, for people at Amazon, Microsoft, Linode and the like which have big business outside US, the situation is completely different, they have to play the tax collector, because, while t

I also don't think the U.S. would ever enter into a treaty that would require "back taxes" on EU VAT. I don't think that's something that the EU even wants really. But it's very conc

Scaleway has had hourly dedis for years. Amazon recently announced them. The "on-demand" model only works if you have enough hardware that units are always in stock. Amazon does t

although the original motivation was to go after the giant US companies Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the like -- which I can understand -- why penalize all US companies in this way? In my vie

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As I tried to say earlier in this thread, the original motivation for the EU MOSS legislation as applied to US companies was to go after the really big boys, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.

traty, the trade will simply use a third party, Amazon will ship from the cayman islands, which, while nominally a British territory, has own trade and customs. In this way they can be in EU and not

There's always an ebb and flow from centralisation and decentralisation. Look at the start of the web, then Google,Amazon,Wiki.

* although the original motivation was to go after the giant US companies Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the like -- which I can understand -- why penalize all US companies in this way? In my v

The Interstate Commerce clause explicitly reserves taxation and regulation for the federal govt, and there is no federal sales tax in the US. This was the reason Amazon charged no sales tax for ages b

Anyway, I have to confess that I try to avoid US companies that charge me EU VAT unless they are properly registered/present in the EU (e.g., Amazon, though I try to avoid Amazon for other reasons).

unless you're huge.. and then the monoliths like Amazon automagically get you for each state since they're registered there (and have deals where they don't have to pay sales tax, so they can outrigh

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Amazon SES handle IP reputation so you just need to get their higher ops to sort that stuff (Image)

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You can simply relay. Why dont you use Amazon SES?

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I don’t buy from Amazon for quality—rather because the shipping is significantly than having a package come from ex. Hong Kong.