Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., offered an e-commerce tax provision as an amendment...
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., offered an e-commerce tax provision as an amendment to the 2013 Defense Authorization Act. The amendment reflects the Marketplace Fairness Act (S-1832) and its House counterpart (HR-3179), which would require online retailers to collect…
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and remit sales tax to the states in which their customers are based. Opponents of the legislation have criticized the legislation because they said it places unfair burdens on small businesses and deprives states of their right to determine sales tax rates for themselves. EBay urged lawmakers to reject the amendment because it would “throw a new tax barrier” in front of small businesses who sell their products on the Web, according to a news release. At our deadline, the Senate had not yet voted on the amendment.