Amazon in Spat with Yet Another State

As a result of an ongoing tax dispute with Texas, Amazon.com has decided to take its ball and go home.The online retailer said Thursday that it would shutter its Irving distribution facility April 12 and cancel plans to hire as many as 1,000 additional workers rather than pay Texas what the state says is owed in uncollected sales tax.Texas wants $269 million from Seattle-based Amazon in past-due sales tax. It sent the bill to the company last October.