The ODP writes In an agreement that all parties seem ready to make a truce, the San Jose Mercury News reports that Amazon.com offers to drive down its referendum to repeal a sales tax line in exchange for a moratorium a year on tax collection. Under the deal, Amazon would agree to begin collecting the tax from residents of California in September 2012, unless Congress takes action on sales taxes on Internet by then.

The development comes a day after an editorial in the New York Times ripped on Amazon’s sales tax Dodge.