Amazon Tries New Tactic to Avoid Charging Californians Sales Tax

America’s largest online bookseller has been fighting tooth and nail with California lawmakers over recent legislation requiring Amazon to collect sales tax from California customers. They’ve been bankrolling a campaign to repeal the new law, circulating petitions, and defying the order to charge customers the tax.

But on Tuesday the company made a more conciliatory offer. The LA Times reports that Amazon has offered to “drop its effort to repeal the sales tax collection law on the June 2012 ballot.

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