June 22, 2012 05:00 AM UTC

Remember that Amazon/tax dust up?

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• by: NeonNurse

I don’t know if people ever fully caught on to what the actual issue was. It seemed to me that most folks thought Amazon was just refusing to pay their taxes on items sold in the various states.

What they were (at least in the beginning) actually not wanting to do was send paper copies of the total of what each individual Colorado customer bought from them, so that Colorado could put the arm on the customers for Use Tax.

The cigar company this guy made a purchase from DID share that info. “Charles Stary was shocked when get got a tax bill from the state of Colorado saying he owed more than $132 in taxes and penalty for his $22 online purchase of a box of cigars.”

More here (I didn’t see this page listed as one of the media people we aren’t supposed to link to):

http://www.thedenverchannel.co…

Is this the first flake of an anti-consumer avalanche? Is there any way the state can possibly collect enough money to make up for the massive outrage and blowback this kind of campaign will generate?

It’ll be interesting to watch, anyway.