Captain Obvious
06-11-2015, 04:29 PM
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/congress-poised-to-renew-battle-over-online-sales-tax-legislation-20150610
Goodlatte earned leverage in the online sales tax debate Tuesday, as the House passed by voice vote his bill that would make an expiring ban on federal, state, and local taxes on Internet access permanent. In addition to barring governments from extracting those taxes, the bill would prohibit levying discriminatory Internet-specific taxes on things such as email or bandwidth.
A ban on Internet access taxes is noncontroversial among most lawmakers in both parties, and has been around since 1998, when it was enacted to protect businesses that relied on the then-nascent World Wide Web.
But by having the House approve a permanent ban, as it did last year, Goodlatte is short-circuiting efforts by a handful of bipartisan senators to combine the access-tax moratorium with more controversial and complicated online sales tax legislation.
Those senators, including Minority Whip Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Michael Enzi, view the access tax moratorium as a vehicle to adopt their long-stalled Marketplace Fairness Act, which would empower states to tax purchases made from out-of-state online retailers with annual sales over $1 million. Boosters of the legislation say it would close an unfair loophole that favors online behemoths over brick-and-mortar retailers, and supply states with additional tax revenue. Its anti-tax opponents say it could kill jobs and stifle Internet freedom.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/congress-poised-to-renew-battle-over-online-sales-tax-legislation-20150610
Goodlatte earned leverage in the online sales tax debate Tuesday, as the House passed by voice vote his bill that would make an expiring ban on federal, state, and local taxes on Internet access permanent. In addition to barring governments from extracting those taxes, the bill would prohibit levying discriminatory Internet-specific taxes on things such as email or bandwidth.
A ban on Internet access taxes is noncontroversial among most lawmakers in both parties, and has been around since 1998, when it was enacted to protect businesses that relied on the then-nascent World Wide Web.
But by having the House approve a permanent ban, as it did last year, Goodlatte is short-circuiting efforts by a handful of bipartisan senators to combine the access-tax moratorium with more controversial and complicated online sales tax legislation.
Those senators, including Minority Whip Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Michael Enzi, view the access tax moratorium as a vehicle to adopt their long-stalled Marketplace Fairness Act, which would empower states to tax purchases made from out-of-state online retailers with annual sales over $1 million. Boosters of the legislation say it would close an unfair loophole that favors online behemoths over brick-and-mortar retailers, and supply states with additional tax revenue. Its anti-tax opponents say it could kill jobs and stifle Internet freedom.