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Amazon is not the bad guy in sales tax fight

Posted on March 15, 2011 @ 7:51 am by David Esrati

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When state legislatures across the country started trying to solve their budget woes- they looked for a scapegoat for their dropping sales tax collections and found Amazon. But before you blame Amazon, try looking at the insane sales tax laws we have in Ohio- and I’m sure are duplicated in other states: different sales tax Read More

Improving Ohio’s business user interface

Posted on December 4, 2010 @ 10:19 am by David Esrati

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Ohio spends millions of dollars trying to “create jobs” and “attract business” to our state. Then we spend millions of dollars persecuting those very same companies because our bureaucrats don’t know how to build an efficient system with a smart user interface to collect fees and taxes. Overly complex systems, spread out over multiple divisions Read More