Amazon settles sales tax fight with Texas comptroller
Ross Ramsey:
Amazon.com will start collecting sales taxes from Texas customers this summer and agreed to make capital investments of $200 million and create 2,500 jobs in the state over the next four years, Comptroller Susan Combs announced this morning. In return, the state will drop its efforts to collect back sales taxes from the company. ... With the new deal, the company will start collecting sales taxes on July 1.
