COLUMBIA (WACH) -- Amazon customers in South Carolina are starting to receive email notices informing them that they owe the state money.
The online retail giant is sending out reminders that customers who made purchases last year still have to pay sales tax even though Amazon doesn't collect it.
The arrangement is part of a deal worked out when Amazon announced plans to build a distribution center in the state.
Companies with online stores as well as physical locations in South Carolina, like Barnes & Noble, have to collect sales tax, but Amazon has a five-year exemption from that requirement.
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