The Senate Finance Committee should take up bills to rein...
The Senate Finance Committee should take up bills to rein in taxes on wireless and digital goods, CTIA and top cellphone carrier executives said. They urged passage of S-543 and S-971 in a letter Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bm37of) to committee Chairman Max…
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Baucus, D-Mont., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. S-543 would set a five-year moratorium on new wireless taxes by state and local governments. “The disparity between the taxes on wireless services and other goods and services imposes an unfair and regressive burden on lower income Americans who disproportionately rely on wireless service for both telephony and Internet access,” CTIA and the carriers said. S-971 aims to establish a framework governing digital transactions. “Only Congress is able to establish a framework providing much needed certainty for consumers, providers, and the state and local governments seeking to tax digital commerce being conducted in today’s borderless broadband economy,” the wireless groups said. Neither bill has received a hearing in the Senate. Last year, the House passed companion legislation (HR-1002) to the wireless tax bill and held a hearing on the digital goods companion (HR-1860) in the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts.