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California & Amazon agree tentative 1-year moratorium on sales tax
Sep 08 2011
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.
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