Amazon cuts sales tax deals with states, not feds

Amazon may have just upended Congress — to the chagrin of those pushing for a federal online sales tax bill. The online retail company inked deals with Texas and Nevada to begin collecting sales taxes on purchases. The company has brokered seven such agreements in recent months while bills to standardize collection of Internet sales taxes nationwide are mired in politics on Capitol Hill. That puts lobbyists and others who have been fighting for a federal bill in a quandary: If the biggest states begin to see sales tax revenue from Amazon’s collections, is it still worth the money and effort to get a federal bill passed?