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Indiana officials reach deal with Amazon.com to start collecting state’s sales tax in 2014
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 10, 2012 09:04pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Amazon.com will begin collecting Indiana’s 7 percent sales tax from customers in the state in 2014, under an agreement announced Monday.
The deal with the online sales company could lead to Indiana bringing in at least $20 million more in annual sales tax revenue.
Gov. Mitch Daniels’ office said Indiana will become the fourth state with such a tax collection agreement with Seattle-based Amazon. It follows a lawsuit by Indianapolis-based shopping mall owner Simon Property Group against the state over the issue and a lobbying push on state legislators by traditional retailers to end what they call an unfair price advantage for online retailers.
The deal doesn’t include any other companies, but Daniels said the state is asking Congress to require all online businesses to collect state sales taxes. Daniels said the status quo of traditional businesses charging sales taxes while few online retailers do so is not fair. |
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