Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is taking a high-stakes legal battle to the US Supreme Court, hiring Ted Olson, one of Washington’s most prominent lawyers, to fight the taxation of its shoppers in New York state.
Amazon wants the court to review a case about the most incendiary political issue in US retail: the complaint by bricks-and-mortar stores that online rivals gain an unfair advantage because they do not have to charge sales tax.
Amazon has hired Mr Olson, a conservative who this year persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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