From USA TODAY/ AP:
Lawmakers on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a compromise bill that delays California’s effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state’s sales taxes while retailers lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes.
Democratic Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, one of the bill’s authors, called it a ground-breaking agreement that could help level the playing field between traditional and online retailers…
The compromise between lawmakers, Amazon.com and traditional retailers would delay the expanded online tax collections until at least September 2012. That would give Amazon and other retailers time to lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes…
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EDITOR: Another example of the powerful avoiding taxes, thus giving them a competitive advantage and fattening their profits. We hope but doubt that Pennsylvania will follow California’s lead.
