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On Thursday, November 15th, the U.S. Senate finally acted to extend the moratorium safeguarding against discretionary taxation of the Internet and Internet access for two years.
The Senate had failed to act in October, allowing the moratorium to expire. This was not as a result of the very serious anthrax scare, but as a result of 18-month long foot-dragging of three Senators. These senators chose to ignore Americans, who according to a recent Zogby poll, oppose Congressional consideration of a law which would force Internet merchants to begin collecting sales tax by 66%.
After much pressure, they finally listened and voted to extend the measure. President Bush signed the bill on November 28, 2001.
While it is certainly not the outcome that we desired, it nonetheless prevents the 7,600 taxing bodies across America from imposing taxes on the Internet for a period of two years.
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Senate finally acts to protect Internet users against taxation.
On Thursday, November 15th, the U.S. Senate finally acted to extend the moratorium safeguarding against discretionary taxation of the Internet and Internet access for two years.
The Senate had failed to act in October, allowing the moratorium to expire. This was not as a result of the very serious anthrax scare, but as a result of 18-month long foot-dragging of three Senators. These senators chose to ignore Americans, who according to a recent Zogby poll, oppose Congressional consideration of a law which would force Internet merchants to begin collecting sales tax by 66%.
After much pressure, they finally listened and voted to extend the measure. President Bush signed the bill on November 28, 2001.
While it is certainly not the outcome that we desired, it nonetheless prevents the 7,600 taxing bodies across America from imposing taxes on the Internet for a period of two years.
According to the author, the Internet
