Friday’s Senate approval of an amendment to allow...
Friday’s Senate approval of an amendment to allow states to collect sales tax from out-of-state online retailers that do business with in-state residents did not deal with what enforcement mechanisms should be made available to collecting states, Computer and Communications…
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Industry Association CEO Ed Black said in a statement this week (http://bit.ly/YCMnXl). The amendment, offered by Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., during the chamber’s budget vote, “does not deal with the all-important question of HOW to achieve that enforcement and collection,” Black said. The amendment does not address the issue that “the Marketplace Fairness Act would scrap the fundamental relationship between taxation and physical presence by pressing online retailers into duty as tax collectors,” he said. Because issues like these remain untouched, “to equate approval of this amendment to support for the Marketplace Fairness Act is akin to pointing to general approval for budget deficit reduction as evidence of support for specific budget cuts,” he said. “CCIA will continue to push for much more extensive consideration of this issue through regular order.”