NAVIGATING THE INTERNET SALES TAX DEBATE.Anyone who makes purchases using the Internet or telephone should raise a concerned brow at Congress' recent movement to permit states to force merchants to collect sales taxes sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. from beyond their jurisdiction, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Institute for Policy Innovation. Constitutional difficulties arise, says IPI (Intelligent Peripheral Interface) A high-speed hard disk interface used with minis and mainframes that transfers data in the 10 to 25 MBytes/sec range. IPI-2 and IPI-3 refer to differences in the command set that they execute. See hard disk. , because current law prohibits states from taxing businesses that have no presence within the state. Otherwise, states would be able to tax citizens of other states and those citizens would have no electoral recourse A better solution is to make permanent the Internet tax moratorium--which prohibits taxes on Internet access See how to access the Internet. or discriminatory Internet taxation--and to block future efforts by state cartels to fill their coffers by taxing residents of other states," says Bartlett Cleland, director of the IPI Center for Technology Freedom. IPI says that most people don't realize that the current moratorium A suspension of activity or an authorized period of delay or waiting. A moratorium is sometimes agreed upon by the interested parties, or it may be authorized or imposed by operation of law. doesn't prohibit states from collecting taxes on e-commerce. States always have been able to enforce use taxes, which require residents to pay their state's sales tax on out-of-state purchases. |
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