8 Settling a taxing problem.

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Arizona joins seven other states on Feb. 1, when it begins receiving sales tax revenues from Amazon.com after settling a dispute with the giant company over collecting the taxes. The online store will begin collecting the state's 6.6 percent tax only on product sales, then in July, add in digital sales. Discussions began after Arizona sent Amazon a bill for $53 million in uncollected sales taxes and interest from March 2006 to Jan. 1,2011. The Seattle-based company has settled similar disputes and now collects sales taxes on orders it ships to seven states, and has agreed to do so in six more. Brick-and-mortar...