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The Marketplace Fairness Act: Too Close A Call

10 Dec 2014
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TruST

As you break out your credit cards this holiday season, you might not know how close we came to a law that would have put Internet retailers and their customers at a permanent disadvantage. Luckily, two Congressional leaders protected us from a radical new tax regime for online purchases.

Prior to the November elections, supporters of the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) declared their intent to leverage the unique pressures and chaos of the lame duck session to ram through their increasingly unpopular Internet tax bill.

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Led by the American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA), and NetChoice, TruST believes that Congress should not overturn the physical presence standard in Quill without first requiring by statute the simplification of sales and use taxes within the States as well as simplification of the administrative requirements for collection and auditing of those taxes.

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Larry Kavanagh Details Further Challenges of Collecting Multi-State Sales Tax in Expert Report in Alabama Litigation

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We now collect enough internet sales taxes to cut the tax rate

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The Hill - The hidden controversy over online shopping

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