In this Ropes & Gray podcast, Isabelle Farrar, a senior associate in the tax controversy group is joined by Harvey Cotton, a principal in the tax and benefits group, and Elizabeth Smith, counsel in the tax controversy group, to discuss the December 2018 decision from the Northern District of Texas in Texas v. United
Amazon Notifies Marketplace Sellers that It Will Disclose Their Inventory Information to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue
In late January 2018, Amazon notified its third party marketplace sellers with inventory in Massachusetts that the company planned to turn over information regarding them to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Amazon informed the vendors that the information, to be disclosed by January 26, 2018, would include name, address, phone number, federal tax ID number, and an estimated value of the vendor’s inventory stored in Amazon warehouses located in Massachusetts based on the seller’s prices in late 2016 and 2017. Amazon has had one fulfillment center in Massachusetts, in Fall River, since fall of 2016.
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