Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:36:53 -0400
From: Kevin Taglang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for SEPTEMBER 28, 1999
INTERNET & ONLINE SERVICES
Digital Dispatch: Internet Tax Debate Returns to the Hill
(CyberTimes)
INTERNET TAX DEBATE RETURNS TO THE HILL
Issue: Internet
As a congressional panel of elected officials and high-tech executives
grapple with the question of whether and how to tax the Internet, two bills
banning taxes on electronic commerce are currently in the works. Senator
John McCain (R-AZ) has just filed a bill to make the current ban on new
Internet taxes permanent, and to outlaw any future attempts to impose a
sales tax structure on Internet purchases. Other lawmakers are preparing a
sequel to the original three-year moratorium on new Internet taxes that
will ask the World Trade Organization to adopt a global moratorium on
Internet taxes. A final report from the Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce appointed by Congress is not due until next year. "It seems to me
to be premature to be introducing new legislation until the commission
finishes its work and makes recommendations," said Larry Naake, executive
director of the National Association of Counties. "This sort of prejudges
that work."
[SOURCE: CyberTimes, AUTHOR: Jeri Clausing]
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/cyber/capital/28capital.html)
