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States taxing sellers on marketplace fees (hidden on Amazon payouts)
Date: August 31st, 2026
Summary: Kevin King unpacks the Texas rule change that quietly made marketplace fees taxable for Texas-based sellers, what it costs, and the narrow window sellers have to push back on it. He also runs through the September e-commerce conference calendar, Amazon’s latest quarter, MCF with Prime taking the Prime badge off Amazon and onto your own site, and the market that has sprung up around buying tariff refund claims for cash today.
Key Points Discussed:
Texas rewrote Rule 3.330 so that marketplace storage of your listings, records and analytics counts as a taxable…
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