No resolution of Indian sales tax issue

BUFFALO - Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration has no plans to begin collecting sales tax on Indian cigarette and gasoline sales this year and has written $200 million in projected revenues out of the budget forecast.

It will be at least next April before the state sees any revenue from the sale of goods by Indian retailers to non-Indian customers.

“We're not going to be precipitous,” Spitzer said Wednesday, citing legal and treaty considerations. “We're going to do it in an appropriate timetable.”