A recent proposal to allow the painless removal of the grocery tax by tapping uncollected Internet revenues apparently has evaporated. Last week, Tax Reform Task Force Senate Chairman Curt Bramble was talking up the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, which may someday allow states to collect sales tax on catalog and Internet sales. That uncollected revenue, Bramble hoped, would allow the state to phase out over a few years the sales tax on groceries. But legislative leaders acknowledged Thursday that the streamlined sales tax revenue available at this point is unlikely to approach anything near the $50 million hoped for. "The streamline revenue flow doesn't look like it's going to be a big number at all," Bramble said, adding, "It may work in the long run." The unpaid sales tax Utah could recover is only about $5 million, said Rep. Wayne Harper, House task force chairman. "It's not until you get Congress to make [tax payment] mandatory, do you really get money coming in through streamlined sales tax." Utah Tax Commissioners Bruce Johnson estimates that with congressional support Utah ultimately could net as much as $100 million in uncollected sales tax annually. - Glen Warchol