Update To California "Amazon Sales Tax"

Update To  California "Amazon Sales Tax"

As you may recall from my post  about Amazon Sales Tax in California, not many people were happy.
For affiliate who reside in California and dropped by Amazon, this may be of interest to you. According to "The Sacramento Bee" Amazon has persuaded California lawmakers to delay tax collection.

Tentatively, Amazon has reached an agreement with California state lawmakers and brick-and-mortar stores to stop fighting a requirement that Internet retailers collect sales tax on any California purchases. Under a handshake deal, Amazon has accomplished delaying the sales tax in California until September 2012.

What does lay the groundwork for? Could it be a national online sales tax law. It's seems that Amazon and retails like Wal-Mart and Barnes & Noble has agreed to lobby Washington over the next 11 months for an Internet sales tax law that would go across 50 states.

However, if no federal deal emerges by July 31,2012, Amazon would have to begin collecting California sales taxes starting on Sept. 15, 2012.

Currently state lawmakers are going to introduce a bill that will delay implementation of the online sales tax law until that date according to Assemblyman Charles Calderon D-Whittier. However, Gov. Jerry Born has not weighed in on the issue as yet.

For complete details you can read the Sacramento Bee.

Okay, this could help all affiliates if Amazon and other retailers can get a federal sales tax law implemented. Can our Congress stop arguing enough to do it? Hm-m-m, that's an interesting question isn't it.