3/21/00
Taxpayers
Win!!!
Commission majority opposes taxing Internet
Dallas,
TX- Today the federal
Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce passed an Internet Tax
resolution that includes many items that will help lower taxes and
protect taxpayers.
Grover
Norquist, a member of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
and president of Americans for Tax Reform, issued the following statement
on the plan that was adopted by the ACEC:
"The
ACEC's vote on the proposed Internet tax plan is a tremendous victory
for taxpayers. The report
filed by the ACEC is taxpayer friendly and includes the following
policy proposals:
-
Eliminating
the federal 3% excise tax on telecommunications
-
Making
permanent the current moratorium on Internet access taxes
-
Making
digital goods and their physical equivalents free of sales and
use taxes
-
Ending
the discriminatory taxation of telecommunications property and
services
-
Defining
clear physical presence standards for the imposition of state
and local income and business activity taxes
-
Simplifying
state and local telecommunications taxes
-
Simplifying
state sales tax systems
"In
short, the ACEC passed an anti-tax resolution that protects taxpayers
and the Internet."
