Verizon supports an amendment to the Marketplace Fairness...
Verizon supports an amendment to the Marketplace Fairness Act, S-743, offered by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., that would “prevent consumers from facing duplicative and discriminatory taxes” on online purchases, said Senior Vice President-Federal Government Relations Peter Davidson in a statement…
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last week. The amendment, introduced last week, would prevent discriminatory taxes on the sale of online goods and services and would identify the single tax jurisdiction that can tax an online transaction. “We believe Senator Thune’s amendment clearly benefits consumers by banning discriminatory taxes from being levied on digital goods and services and by precluding multiple states or jurisdictions from imposing taxes on the same digital transaction,” Davidson said. “Consumers using the Internet for these purchases are currently vulnerable to multiple and discriminatory taxation, and it is critical that Congress step in now to modernize Internet tax policy to address this urgent problem."