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The House and Senate have passed legislation that aims to collect sales tax from online companies.

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Update: The Senate concurred with House amendments to the bills changing the effective date to Oct. 1, 2015. The bills will soon be on their way to the Governor.

LANSING, MI -- The Michigan House early Friday morning put its stamp of approval on a pair of "Main Street Fairness" bills that aim to extend the state's sales and use taxes to online retailers.

SB 658 and SB 659 extend the state's sales and use taxes to out-of-state companies with a physical "nexus" or presence in the state. That would apply these taxes to companies like Amazon, which has a presence in the state but not a retail front.

Both bills have already passed the Senate, and passed the House 83-27 on Friday. After a procedural OK from the Senate, the bills will be headed to Gov. Rick Snyder for his consideration.

Supporters of the bill include some retailers in the state who say that people come into stores and examine their products before buying them online to avoid sales tax.

"What really pushed it over the line is the amount of companies that are doing business online, and you have all the brick and mortar people that are dying," said supporter Sen. Mike Kowall, R-White Lake.

Residents are technically supposed to self-report out-of-state or online spending and remit the tax on their state income forms. However, the compliance rate is low and the Michigan Department of Treasury estimates hundreds of millions of dollars in such transactions are going uncollected.

The bills have drawn opposition from some of the more conservative legislators and the Tea Party, who see it as a tax increase.

In an e-mail last week, former state lawmaker and Tea Party figure Jack Hoogendyk last week urged members to call their legislators and oppose the House version of the legislation.

The two bills were run alongside an 11-bill package related to road funding.

Sen. Jim Ananich, D-Flint sponsored the Senate bills, and said it was good legislation that doesn't relate to the roads package.

"In my mind it doesn't, but I think it's about fairness and about putting Michigan companies on a level playing field. And if it makes somebody vote for roads, that's fine with me," Ananich said.

Emily Lawler is a Capitol/Lansing business reporter for MLive. You can reach her at elawler@mlive.com, subscribe to her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter: @emilyjanelawler.