Kristina Peterson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Amazon Tells Lawmakers It Supports Sales Tax

November 30, 2011 at 10:40 am PT

Amazon.com Inc. “strongly supports” federal legislation permitting states to collect state sales tax from Internet retailers, so long as few companies are permitted to duck the requirements, an Amazon executive said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.

Though the Seattle-based online retailing giant has clashed with several individual states this year over efforts to gather sales tax, Amazon supports “an even-handed federal framework for state sales tax collection,” Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president for global public policy, said at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.

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