Why does this need to have anything to do with affiliate marketers? "Associates" need not count as "subsidiaries" or "distribution centers" whatsoever.
I also regularly get deliveries that seem to originate within CA, even if Amazon does nor report any fulfillment centers in CA.
Let's be honest: Amazon has an unfair advantage over local retailers by not charging sales tax and it's using the loud online voice that its Amazon Associates have to keep things this way.
""Retailer engaged in business in this state" specifically includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(1) Any retailer maintaining, occupying, or using, permanently or temporarily, directly or indirectly, or through a subsidiary, or agent, by whatever name called, an office, place of distribution, sales or sample room or place, warehouse or storage place, or other place of business. "
According to http://www.amazon.com/Locations-Careers/b?ie=UTF8&node=2... Amazon has subsidiaries in: Cupertino, Lake Forest, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Palo Alto, and San Francisco.
I also regularly get deliveries that seem to originate within CA, even if Amazon does nor report any fulfillment centers in CA.
Let's be honest: Amazon has an unfair advantage over local retailers by not charging sales tax and it's using the loud online voice that its Amazon Associates have to keep things this way.