Amazon.com is now in talks to open two warehouses in New Jersey in exchange for a 22-month sales-tax holiday.
The deal follows the same play book Amazon has used in Indiana, California, Tennessee and South Carolina, where it has agreed to build distribution centers that will create hundreds of jobs only if state legislatures exempt it from collecting and remitting taxes on its sales into those states for up to two years.
In New Jersey, where the unemployment rates is hovering around 9 percent, Amazon is offering to create 1,500 full-time jobs in exchange for the sales tax holiday.
