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  Tale of two houses: Seeking fairness in the Internet sales tax debate October 27, 2014, 12:00 pm The Hill By Hamilton Davison http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/221820-tale-of-two-houses-seeking-fairness-in-the-internet-sales-tax The upcoming lame duck...

CBN features harms of Internet sales tax under the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) with ACMA member and Uno Alla Volta owner Terri Alpert. The segment is available for view here.

TruST co-founding organization, NetChoice released its August iAWFUL list today with Internet Sales Tax taking the number one slot. The organization cited Senate’s current parliamentary ploy to short circuit a productive debate in the House and stymieing opportunities to...

Today, the TruST Coalition sent the following letter to Senate leadership expressing strong opposition to attaching the controversial and flawed Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) to the broadly supported, and critically important renewal of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA). TruST...

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee set a high bar for taxing remote sales and reset the clock on a broader debate over the Marketplace Fairness Act. The assembled witnesses clearly communicated that there is no simple federal solution and that any system put in place...

Internet sales tax advocates, led by the big-box retailers, are a creative and well-funded bunch. To justify creation of a new tax on internet sales, they are happy to promote any argument, no matter how tenuous. But this week the internet sales tax advocates abandoned one of...

February 26, 2014 To All TruST Supporters: The Executive Committee of True Simplification of Taxation (TruST) wants to alert you of the upcoming March 4, 2014, House Judiciary Committee hearing focused on remote sales tax – and actions you should take prior to that hearing....

Cyber Monday 2013 was an unprecedented success for everyone involved  – including state tax collectors.  So why are we still arguing about new Internet tax schemes? According to most estimates, Cyber Monday sales were up nearly 20 percent from 2012, a jump made even more...

The Marketplace Fairness Act will be as hard to implement as Obamacare 11:24 AM 12/04/2013 McKane Davis Co-owner, Scrapbook.com The Supreme Court this week refused to hear a case about the legality of remote sales-tax collection requirements, shifting attention to the...

Sales tax legislation on retailers’ shopping list Gregory Korte, USA TODAY 1:34 p.m. EST November 28, 2013 (Photo: Bebeto Matthews, AP) WASHINGTON — Brick-and-mortar retailers and online sellers are using the holiday shopping season to step up their lobbying on a bill that...