Without an agreement
on Internet tax collection procedures, governments have little hope of collecting more than a fraction of the sales taxes they're owed.
Congress just a few weeks ago passed the Permanent
Internet Tax Freedom Act, and, as the name implies, makes further bans unnecessary.
On June 19, 2014, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 3086, the
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, by a vote of 30 - 4.
The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not
paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!
Although the current moratorium on
new Internet taxes expires in October 2001, Congress faces mounting pressure to extend the moratorium...
The moratorium, which expires in October 2001, was designed to help e-commerce grow while giving Congress more time to consider
Internet tax issues.
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[QUOTE] There is one
Internet tax measure that NAR does support: It's called the Marketplace Fairness Act, and it would end the preferential sales tax treatment many online retailers get compared with brick - and - mortar businesses.
Real estate interests were hoping that an upcoming end to the current three -
year Internet tax moratorium would be the right time for legislating a solution to the tax collection problem, but that's not happening, NAR analysts say.
The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not
paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!
That moratorium, which applies to the imposition of
new Internet taxes, such as access to Internet services providers, ends Oct. 5.
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The judge ruled that the state's Affiliate Nexus Tax law was unconstitutional and that it violated
the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
Trump believes that Amazon has not paid its fair share of «
internet taxes,» and has accused The Washington Post of spreading «fake news.»
This is also a man who made a fortune in online sales and then tried to tax every company and consumer to death with
his internet tax collection expansion during 2008 - 09.
This bill will make
the Internet tax moratorium permanent.
Back in 1998, Congress limited the taxes to just the 10 states — Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin — by passing
the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
Rick Lehman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said at the caucus that industry executives should back extension of
the Internet tax moratorium while ways are devised to streamline and unify tax collection requirements.
Gore: I supported
the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which put the moratorium in place.
* Internet retailers became exempt from state and local taxes last year with passage of
the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
That's a reasonable approach because it provides time to study the impact of the Internet and
Internet taxes on our economy.