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Steve DelBianco 7:54 p.m. EST November 28, 2013 What’s needed is protection for Internet sellers and consumers. (Photo: 2008 AP photo) Imagine if the cashiers handling your Black Friday checkouts asked to see your driver’s license so they could look up sales tax rates...

Past performance is a good indicator of the future. So as we watch systematic failures with the Affordable Care Act enrollment system, Healthcare.gov, continue to play out across states, we should be asking: why wouldn’t the same chaos ensue with a state enforced Internet sales...

Marketplace Fairness Act is Anything but for Companies that Depend on Catalogs By Louis Giesler,  TruST co-founder and AmeriMark CEO Crains Cleveland Business   When I tell people about AmeriMark Direct and the significant number of handwritten catalog orders we receive...

As the issue of Internet sales tax heats up in Congress, there has been much speculation about the costs that online and catalog retailers will face in integrating so-called “free” software under the Marketplace Fairness Act. The notion that free software, from providers like...

Sales Tax Bill Before Congress Could Greatly Hamper Entrepreneurs By TERRI ALPERT | OP-ED The Hartford Courant An innocuous-sounding bill before Congress, the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act, has the potential to crush many of Connecticut’s small businesses and stifle...

A majority of U.S. likely voters want the Internet to remain as free from government regulation and taxation as possible (73 percent). This finding and others were released today from a study by the National Tax Payers Union and R Street (conducted by Mercury). The survey...

Most businesses don’t become a mainstream success overnight. But for the Mom and Pop Shops contending with big box retailers, the Internet has helped them to quickly bring their products to a diverse online marketplace with immense buying power. Tools-Plus, located in Prospect,...

A recent Gallup poll reveals an undisputable fact: Despite its popularity, many Americans – especially millennials – oppose a new Internet sales tax system enabled by the Marketplace Fairness Act. The bill, currently under Congressional consideration, will require online...

It’s gonna take more than sloganeering and one-sided arguments to address the enormous challenge of reforming federal and state tax systems. That was the key message coming out of today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing on tax reform, and it’s one that advocates of the so-called...

Tax Foundation Vice President Joseph Henchman argued that Congress must do more to push states to simplify their tax rates. He said that even an organization such as his own that is focused on tax issues has a difficult time tracking state tax changes. “It’s not an excuse for...