Amazon.com Inc has taken the first step toward asking California voters to repeal a new law requiring websites that forward shoppers to it to collect sales tax, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney general said on Monday.
The attorney general’s office received the petition on Friday and will prepare a title and summary for the initiative, which would require nearly 434,000 voters’ signatures to qualify for the ballot, the spokeswoman said.
California’s leaders approved the law last month as part of a package of budget bills aimed at closing a roughly $10 billion deficit to balance the state government’s books. more