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Does anyone know if an out of state ecommerce site like Amazon is required to give user data in this manner. Focusing on the state tax issue, it would appear that these two systems are similar in that taxpayer is required to declare and remit taxes (but often doesn't).

(obviously the other issues about whether it's even legal to rent out in the first place is another matter)




The german tax authorities actually crawl ebay to find commercial sellers posing as private citizens.


North Carolina tried back in 2010: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20020680-281.html

It was denied as a violation of privacy.


I don't know that it's a routine thing but NY State has requested (and received) sales data from Amazon in the past.




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