Enzi's bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01567: --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48250,00.html Senate Net Tax Vote Looms By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 9:40 a.m. Nov. 8, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- The Senate may vote as early as Thursday on a plan that would permit states to collect Internet sales taxes. The bill, championed by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), abandons Capitol Hill's hands-off approach to online taxation: It would usher in a cavalcade of levies on mail order and Internet purchases. Enzi admits his Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act, which state legislators hope will hand them an extra $50 billion or so in tax revenue by mid-decade, is controversial. The former footwear entrepreneur put it this way in a recent statement: "Leadership isn't always easy or popular, it's doing what needs to be done." Congress had previously banned states from collecting Net taxes, but the temporary moratorium expired on Oct. 21. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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