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Online retail giant, Amazon.com announced last Friday that it will begin collecting sales tax from Ohioans who make online purchases starting today. During a press conference at the Statehouse, Governor John Kasich, Amazon’s VP of global public policy Paul Misener and John Minor, Jobs-Ohio Chief Investment Officer gave details of new facilities and data centers that are aimed at supporting Amazon’s US network.
As it stands, Ohio residents are already required to pay sales tax on all purchases made from out-of-state and online retailers. Gary Gudmundson, the Ohio State Taxation Department’s spokesman said that Ohioans filed about 5.4 million tax returns last year. In 2012, more than 50,000 tax returns included reports of owed sales tax out of which more than $3 million in sales tax was collected.
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