(Lititz) -- Pennsylvania brick-and-mortar storeowners are cheering the state’s announcement that it will require online and catalog retailers to collect sales tax. Todd Dickinson has run Aaron’s Books, a store in Lititz, Lancaster County, for six years. For the past two, he’s been behind efforts to get the state to make e-commerce retailers collect sales tax. Dickinson says the latest clarification is a big shift. "Pennsylvania saying, you know, the Internet is now established and we don’t have to treat it with kid gloves and we’re not going to hurt its growth by applying the same rules to the folks there as we do to the bricks and mortar stores in our state," he says. The state Revenue Department says it will start enforcing sales tax collection among remote sellers that have any kind of physical presence in the commonwealth. The Revenue Secretary has interpreted that to mean any warehouses, delivery infrastructure, or sales agents in Pennsylvania. Dickinson says it’s only fair for storeowners like him, that have long had to compete with e-commerce discounts that are due in part to not having to charge sales tax.