Amazon collects tax on my FBA orders. Why are people still telling me to review state nexus?
I am in India and use a Delaware LLC for an Amazon FBA private-label business. Revenue is around $260,000. Amazon shows marketplace tax collection on many orders, so I assumed the sales tax issue was mostly solved. But my accountant keeps warning me that FBA can still create registration or filing questions.
What I do not understand is why that would be true if Amazon is already collecting and remitting the tax on orders shipped to customers.
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