[sickoflibs]

RE :"Reporting from Sacramento— Amazon.com cut a tentative deal with legislative leaders Wednesday night that would allow it to postpone collecting sales taxes from Californians for another year. The company in turn would drop its battle to overturn the state's new law that required it and many other out-of-state online retailers to collect the taxes. Under the deal, Amazon would delay collecting taxes until September 2012, Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Whittier) said. The new law had mandated that Internet retailers start collecting state taxes in July if they had offices, workers or other connections in California. Amazon had refused to collect the taxes and poured $5 million into collecting signatures for a ballot referendum challenging the law."

This is really bad news because it shows that any state now can force a out of state company to collect state sales taxes for it, without a change in Federal law. Maryland is following CA because it just jacked up it's sales tax by 50%.

The CA law referenced:
California tells online retailers to start collecting sales taxes from customers

[Gilbo_3]

new law had mandated that Internet retailers start collecting state taxes in July if they had offices, workers or other connections in California.

move out, or add the additional tax separately at 'checkout', giving full credit to the socialists, by name, that voted for it...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sickoflibs.

[Impy]

Uh oh. Wussies.